Six students from FIU and three from Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, worked together in Spring 2016 to develop a whitepaper about inequalities among the sexes in communications fields.
The report, released at an April 21, 2016 conference on women in communication, focuses on systemic issues facing women in these fields and provides solutions culled from 13 videos produced by the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, which sponsored the report.
Whitworth students, led by Dr. Erica Salkin, designed the report to make it approachable for academics and practitioners. Students at FIU presented initial findings from the report at an undergraduate research conference in March. View that PowerPoint here. The students’ work was also presented during a special session at the 2016 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in August 2016.
Read more about the project and how it corresponded with other research here. You can see one of the presentations here.
RELATED RESEARCH
Publications
Black, S., Estrada, C., de la Fuente, M. C., Orozco, A., Trabazo, T., de la Vega, S., & Gutsche, Jr., R. E. (2019). “Nobody really wants to be called bossy or domineering”: Feminist critique of media “industry speak.” Journalism Practice, 13(1), 35-51. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2017.1399812 PDF
Black, S., Estrada, C., Devine, E., De La Fuente, C., C. Orozco, A., Trabazo, A., De La Vega, S., Gutsche, Jr, R. E., Kopenhaver, L. (2016). Kopenhaver Center Report: What Women Tell Women About Working in Communication. Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, April 21.
Presentations
Gutsche, Jr., R. E., Black, S., de la Fuente, M. C., de la Vega, S., Estrada, C., Orozco, A., Trabazo, A., Kopenhaver, L. L., Abreu, L., & Devine, E. (2016). Between you and me: What women tell women about working in communication. Accepted for presentation at the Kopenhaver Center Research Papers special session, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 4-7.
Black, S., De Le Fuente, M., De La Vega, S., Estrada, C., Orozco, A., Trabazo, A., Kopenhaver, L., Abreu, L., Devine, E., & Gutsche, Jr., R. E. (2016). Between you and me: What women tell women about working in communication, FIU Undergraduate Research Conference, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 31.
Gutsche, Jr., R.E. & Black, S. (2016). What women tell women about working in communication, Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication 2016 conference, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, April 21.