Women and Politics Specialist Group Update
1. NEW: Women and Politics in the Media Directory Project
2. NEW: Renew your W&P membership online using Paypal
3. October blog traffic
Hello all,
There have been some exciting new developments that we wanted to pass on.
1. NEW: Women and Politics in the Media Directory Project
As you might know there has been coverage of the lack of women in the
media, and in particular a lack of women being consulted and quoted on
women‘s issues and a lack of women academics in the media.
(http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/women-academics-and-the-media/)
There was also coverage of women scientists addressing a lack of women
scientists represented in Wikipedia entries
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/19/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-women-scientists).
We felt that as the Women and Politics Specialist Group we could
contribute to solving the problem of a lack of women academics in the
media. To that end we are launching a project to build a directory of
women academics who study politics and government to be made available to
the media. To make sure that we would produce a useful directory, we
consulted with media producers to find out what information they needed to
make it easier to find women experts. The form has been designed to
collect information needed by the media.
The Women and Politics website now has a page devoted to this project.
http://psawomenpolitics.wordpress.com/media-project/
In the coming weeks we intend to launch this project with a press release.
We are also looking for our members to spread the word and pass on the
information to other women academics in any area of politics or government
who are willing to be contacted by the media.
We would like to invite you to have a look at the page and at the form and
provide us with comments and feedback. And, of course, if you are willing
to be listed in the directory please fill out the form and send it in!
After a few weeks of recruitment we will be contacting members of the
media with the directory and provide them with updates on additions to the
directory.
2. NEW: Renew your W&P membership online using Paypal
The next big change to the website is our online membership subscription
page. We’ve signed up with Paypal to make it easier for people to become
members of our specialist group.
3. October blog traffic
Finally, we wanted to update you on the group’s blog. We’ve seen steady
growth in visits to the website since we started the content aggregation
service. Just a few statistics to let you know how we’ve been doing.
Here are the total number of visits by months since the start of the year.
The content aggregation project started in May.
Jan 275 Feb 160 Mar 168 Apr 224 May 1,356 Jun 806 Jul 1,248 Aug 1,481 Sept
1,155 Oct ~2,207
We receive hits from all over the world. At the end of this message is
the list of countries visiting our site and how the 1,996 hits are
distributed by country (for the last 90 days). We also have 78 people who
have subscribed to our blogs posts on Wordpress and 31 who have signed up
for email updates.
Kristi is *always* looking to highlight the work of our members, so if you
have a blog you run, or if you publish something on your university’s
blog, if you give an interview or participate in a radio or tv broadcast
that can be linked please forward it to Kristi so we can create a link and
increase your hits and your site’s traffic.
Thanks for taking the time to read this update and best wishes,
Kristi and Liz
Top Views by Country for 90 days ending 2012-10-31 (Summarized)
Country Views
United States 1,996
United Kingdom 1,183
Germany 152
Canada 136
Australia 119
India 117
Poland 75
Romania 46
France 45
New Zealand 41
Austria 40
Sweden 38
Netherlands 38
Philippines 33
Switzerland 31
Ireland 28
Saudi Arabia 26
Pakistan 25
Malaysia 24
Singapore 23
Republic of Korea 20
Indonesia 20
Belgium 19
Spain 18
Italy 18
Nigeria 17
Greece 16
Turkey 15
Portugal 13
Denmark 13
Kenya 12
South Africa 11
Brazil 10
Egypt 10
Lebanon 9
Ukraine 9
Morocco 9
Hong Kong 9
Russian Federation 8
Japan 8
Hungary 8
Thailand 8
United Arab Emirates 7
Taiwan 7
Finland 7
Ghana 7
Luxembourg 7
United Republic of Tanzania 7
Bangladesh 6
Israel 6
Mexico 6
Serbia 6
Nepal 6
Croatia 6
Norway 6
Colombia 6
Brunei Darussalam 5
Viet Nam 5
Bulgaria 5
El Salvador 5
Azerbaijan 4
Ethiopia 4
Senegal 4
Sierra Leone 4
Belarus 4
Czech Republic 3
Uganda 3
Jamaica 3
Jordan 3
Argentina 3
Slovenia 3
Moldova 3
Slovakia 3
Botswana 2
Mauritius 2
Kazakhstan 2
Antigua and Barbuda 2
Bolivia 2
Palestinian Territory, Occupied 2
Qatar 2
Zimbabwe 2
Sri Lanka 2
Uruguay 2
Malta 2
Costa Rica 2
Oman 2
Haiti 2
Gambia 1
Virgin Islands 1
Bermuda 1
Liechtenstein 1
Mongolia 1
Puerto Rico 1
Iraq 1
Guam 1
Syrian Arab Republic 1
Swaziland 1
Trinidad and Tobago 1
Rwanda 1
Papua New Guinea 1
Tonga 1
Bahrain 1
Latvia 1
Nicaragua 1
Libya 1
Mozambique 1
Venezuela 1
Estonia 1
Barbados 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1
Guyana 1
Chile 1
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Dr Elizabeth Evans
Lecturer in Politics
SPAIS
University of Bristol
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/spais/people/person/228065
Follow me on Twitter @DrLizJEvans
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gender-Liberal-Democrats-Representing-Women/dp/0719083478
Co-convenor of the women and politics group
http://psawomenpolitics.wordpress.com/
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