Gender equality: Journalism — no longer a man’s world
Speakers prominence significance of women in margin and struggles they face. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI: The margin of broadcasting is no some-more a belligerent where women are not allowed. Instead, in a past few years, women have been welcomed as most as group in a field.
This was voiced by participants belonging to several media and amicable organisations in a contention on ‘Media’s Role on Gender and Youth Rights’ on Thursday during a Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi. The contention was organized by Mediators, a open family firm.
Various topics relating to media, gender and stating were oral about and participants were giveaway to demonstrate their points of view.
Reporter Anil Datta commented on gender equivalence in a media and pronounced that in new years he had met some really earnest women operative in a field. “Our pursuit has no timings, therefore, there was a time when women themselves refrained from fasten it and organisations also hesitated from employing them,” he said. “But a seductiveness shown by them was convincing and now in many organisations they have equal representation.” Speaking about a leisure of reporting, Datta common that reporters in Pakistan are as giveaway to work as those in grown countries.
Shazia Hasan, a contributor during an English newspaper, pronounced that when she entered a margin of journalism, she was disheartened from holding a sports kick and was told that a kick does not describe to women. But later, she claimed, she took on a challenge, took sports as her kick and worked on it for several years. “I had to infer myself during each event and now we am operative for a city pages of my paper,” she shared. Hasan pronounced that several magazines are now being headed by women, that proves that women are as efficient as group in a margin of journalism.
Expressing compensation over a series of women in his organisation, Fahim Siddiqui, who works during a news channel, claimed there is always a ‘soft corner’ for women, ensuing in them receiving many privileges such as collect and dump services and increasing salaries and promotions where as immature group entrance into a margin have to onslaught a lot.
Agreeing with Siddiqui’s prior point, Nimra Malik, a contributor during an Urdu newspaper, pronounced she believes that in a name of feminism, women infrequently accept advantages that are not given to men. She combined that her masculine colleagues do not accept a same incentives that are given to women.
This story is totally opposite during informal channels, claimed Hameed Bhutto, who is compared with informal electronic media. Bhutto pronounced that according to his experience, women are not given a satisfactory possibility during informal news channels and newspapers. He combined that organisations have started to realize women’s significance and shortly a classify of not employing women since they are ‘less courageous’ will change.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 7th, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1194723/gender-equality-journalism-no-longer-mans-world/