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ROME, Jun 9 (IPS) - "We should not be all that surprised that we are stalled," says Jane Ransom, executive director of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF), referring to the absence of women leaders in media organisations.

"We have a few generations of educated, free women," she notes, but this must be considered in the context of many preceding generations in which women were barred from journalism. "Men still control most of the media, and most cultural, financial, and political structures are still male-dominated," she says. According to the report "Women Make the News 2008", published by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation...Read the rest