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Communicating Empowerment: Countering the cardboard woman

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Tessa Lewin draws on the work done by the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research and Communications Consortium from 2007 to date. She explores both the broad approach to communicating empowerment and highlights the work of various projects undertaken.

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  1. More information on this can be found in Akofa Anyidoho's 2008 article, http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/news/news-at-ids-representations-of-women-in-ghanaian-popular-music.

  2. All these statistics are from the World Association for Christian Communication's 2010 Global Media Monitoring Project Report ‘Who makes the News’.

  3. Figures are from the 2009 Blogher survey on ‘Women and Social Media’.

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Explores new multimedia approaches to communicating empowerment and gender

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Lewin, T. Communicating Empowerment: Countering the cardboard woman. Development 53, 222–226 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.25

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