News values and feminisms: a campaign for gender equality in Irish higher education

Abstract

Desde por lo menos 2014, una campaña feminista está desafiando la desigualdad de género en las universidades irlandesas. Siete demandas judiciales empezadas por profesoras contra la National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) incluyeron, con éxito, el tema en la agenda pública y culminaron en la transformación de las políticas nacionales para la enseñanza superior. Este artículo considera los valores notícia movilizados para relatar la campaña. El objetivo es investigar como las historias fueron seleccionadas y enmarcadas por la media hegemónica. Las noticias fueron recolectadas con palabras clave que eran los nombres de las litigantes en los archivos digitales de los dos más grandes diarios irlandeses (Irish Independent e Irish Times), también de un semanario local (Connacht Tribune). La muestra de 111 publicaciones se analizó con base en la tipología de valores noticia desarrollada por Gislaine Silva. Los resultados indican que los valores noticia con más incidencia fueron conflicto, colectividad y celebridad, desvelando que la realización de eventos mediáticos es crucial para romper la exclusión o condena de la agenda feminista en los discursos periodísticos. La pesquisa empírica ofrece un terreno fértil para reflexionar sobre la representación mediática de los feminismos contemporáneos, además de pensar la política de la memoria relativa al movimiento sufragista.

Institutional Change and Organisational Resistance to Gender Equality in Higher Education: An Irish Case Study

“…Partly because of this, and partly because of the personal background of the complainant, whose grandparents were renowned advocates for women's suffrage and gender equality at the foundation of the State, the R case received an extraordinary level of media coverage for an equality action, and was rapidly identified as a seminal decision. One study of three newspapers identifies 110 articles referencing the complainant up to , peaking in 2015-2016(De Oliveira Filha and Oliveira Ruggi 2020. The complainant's portrayal as a "dedicated activist against injustice", honouring her grandparents' legacy (De Oliveira Filha and Oliveira Ruggi 2020, p. 54), lent much colour to the subsequent equality campaign.…”

Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education

“…After years of legal battle and reputational damage, the cases were amicably settled. The gender crisis at NUI Galway created momentum for the prioritisation of GE by transforming individual episodes into a collective issue (Ruggi and Oliveira Filha, 2020).…”

“…Gender equality (GE) became a priority in Irish higher education (HE) thanks to an ‘almost-perfect storm of pressure’ that gained momentum by the mid-2010s (Quinlivan, 2017: 7). It emerged from high profile discrimination cases against female academics in one university, leading to widespread feminist mobilization, an increasing public relations crisis, and the change of the national policy (O’Keefe and Courtois, 2019; Ruggi and Oliveira Filha, 2020). Self-described as ‘ambitious and radical’, the resulting policy claims that ‘without radical action, we cannot guarantee that Irish HEIs [higher education institutions] will ever be free of gender inequality’ (HEA, 2016: 9).…”