Seeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication Education: A 30-year Update (Routledge Communication Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805845747 ISBN 13: 9780805845747

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

This volume concentrates on the study and efforts of women and minority men to gain respect and parity in journalism and mass communication, and focuses on trends over the past three decades. Contributions to the volume provide a history of the equity efforts and offer updates on equity in the academy and in the professions. Theoretical and international perspectives on equity are also included, as are the concerns about equity from the new generations now coming into the profession.

This anthology serves as a benchmark of women's current status in journalism and mass communication and provides a call to action for the future. As such, it is required reading for all concerned with establishing equity throughout the discipline.

About this title

About the Author:

Rush is Professor and the first Dean in 1977 of the College of Communications at the University of Kentucky.

Pam Creedon, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Iowa, previously directed the J-MC program at Kent State University for seven years and was a faculty member at The Ohio State University for 10 years. An accredited business communicator (ABC), she spent 15 years as an editor and public relations practitioner before entering academe. Currently president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with 190 member colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada and eight countries, she is a member of the Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Advisory Board. She serves on the editorial boards of Public Relations Review and the Journal of Public Relations Research. She has edited two books published by Sage: Women in Mass Communication and Women, Media and Sport, and co-edited Seeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication by Erlbaum. She is a member of International Advisory Board of the College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. She earned her M.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon and her B.A. from Mount Union College.

Synopsis:

Starting from their 1972 study of women's status in journalism and mass communication education, editors Ramona R. Rush, Carol E. Oukrop, and Pamela J. Creedon bring together voices from the discipline to examine women's struggles for equity since the early 1970s and to identify what issues still lie ahead. The volume concentrates on the study and efforts of women and minority men to gain respect and parity in journalism and mass communication, and focuses on trends over the past three decades. Contributions to the volume provide a history of the equity efforts and offer updates on equity in the academy and in the professions. Theoretical and international perspectives on equity are also included, as are the concerns about equity from the new generations now coming into the profession. This anthology serves as a benchmark of women's current status in journalism and mass communication and provides a call to action for the future.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0805845747
• ISBN 13: 9780805845747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 484
• Editor: Rush Ramona R., Oukrop Carol E., Creedon Pamela J.