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Challenges of Female Journalists in Bangladesh

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Abstract

Journalism is a challenging profession in Bangladesh where female were less encouraged to be a journalist. In recent time Bangladesh is encouraging her women to work outside of home. A significant number of women are involved in journalism. They are contributing to the society for economic prosperity and changing the attitude towards the development concept and process. A salient change has come into the social attitude which is symbolized by women’s advancement in journalism sector. These contributions also are paving the way for female and human emancipation. So it is important to find out what are the challenges that women journalist’s face in their professional environment. The study has taken a survey of 100 female journalists from television, newspaper and online media of Bangladesh. The study has taken 6 in-depth interviews from media critics. The female journalists recognized stereotyped attitudes, unreasonable treatment, harassment by male colleagues and job insecurity as the common reasons that make them to give up the profession.

Published in Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI 10.11648/j.hss.20150305.17
Page(s) 207-214
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Keywords

Female Journalists, Challenges, Journalism, Bangladesh

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  • The School of Journalism and Communication, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

  • School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

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