Margaret
Gallagher (Ireland) is a freelance researcher and writer specialising in gender
and media. She has carried out research, development and evaluation projects for
the United Nations Statistics Division, UNIFEM, UNESCO, the International Labour
Office, the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the European Audiovisual
Observatory. In 1986 she established the European Commission's Steering Committee
for Equal Opportunities in Broadcasting, which she coordinated until 1990. From
1989 to 1999 she worked on the Prix Niki, the European Commission's biennial television
prize for innovative portrayal of women and men. Most recently she has been consultant
to a consortium of five European broadcasters for the development of an audiovisual
training kit Screening Gender (1997-2000), and to the World Association
for Christian Communication for the second Global Media Monitoring Project (2000).
Recent publications include An Unfinished Story: Gender Patterns in Media Employment
(Paris: UNESCO, 1995), Images of Women in the Media (Luxembourg: Office
for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1999), From Mexico to
Beijing - and Beyond: Covering Women in the World's News (New York: UNIFEM,
2000), Gender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy (London:
Zed Books, 2001, in press). She is a member of the editorial advisory boards of
Gazette: The International Journal of Communication Studies (Sage) and
Feminist Media Studies (Routledge).
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