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Media supports to women candidates and changing gender roles in culture and education
15-3-2018
In partnership with Konrad-Adenauer Beirut, the ministry of women’s affairs organized yesterday a training workshop on ‘preparing the media and political message to women candidates’ with the aim to provide them with consultation and promote their networking with media channels. The workshop helps the candidate identify the message she wants to convey to the targeted public, and to set a strategy of how to talk to the media, while noting that the activity comes as part of a work plan by above ministry to encourage women running for the upcoming parliamentary elections. On the other hand, and to mark the International Women’s Day, ASSABIL association jointly with UNIC-Beirut held yesterday a panel discussion entitled, ‘When a woman speaks: readings in 70 current books from Lebanon and 100 folk tales’. The debate was moderated by Lebanese author Najla Jreisati Khury who portrayed women in traditional stories and roles in society. During the activity, UN Women program coordinator, Jumana Zabaneh, highlighted the work of the agency in Lebanon referring to two recent studies, one on the concept of manhood in local society and the other on gender equality in Lebanon. The two studies, Zabaneh explained, show that there has been a slight and gradual change in the perception of stereotypical roles of men and women in the country, but that men still largely resist gender equality. Both studies recommended revising gender roles in educational curricula and children’s stories in order to reflect fairness and gender equality. (AL Mustaqbal, Al Akhbar, March 15, 2018)
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