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Ensure a substantive number of women are included as members of the permanent
Press Council as soon as it is established, including as part of the complaints
mechanism.
Ensure that only members who have received specialist gender-awareness training can
adjudicate in complaints that relate to women’s sexuality, sexual orientation or gender
identity. Such members should seek the assistance of gender-focused civil society
organisations to make decisions.
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Establish a policy of positively including women members in all decision-making
mechanisms. Should women members be reticent to participate, conduct a review to
investigate the logistical, procedural or organisation changes that are needed to
encourage and facilitate their participation.
Establish in addition women’s sub-committees that explicitly focus on gender within
the media sector, and that feed recommendations into the main executive bodies. The
sub-committees should focus on both identifying gender-based issues and
encouraging women to enter the profession. This should include challenging any
cultural or other barriers that deter or prevent them.
Develop a set of standards for media companies to adopt in order to systematically
address gender-based discrimination, including: the creation of appropriate human
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