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Fried, Dayna Lynn. "A Historical Perspective of Arizona Women Journalists." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292201.
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Drayton, Kandra C. "Motherhood how it affects women journalists' experiences /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0003041.
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Stephenson, Jacob. "Reporting on violence against women : How Guyanese journalists cover violence against women in 2014." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26397.
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Violence against women is considered a global issue and it denies women their most basic human right, their health. The news media have been identified as an important factor in how violence against women is interpreted and perceived by society. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate how journalists and editors in Guyana, South America, work with the coverage of violence against women. Furthermore, this thesis examines what policies and views on news value that are prominent on the newspapers and what possibilities journalists and editors experience, to make an impact on society, through their reporting. Eight qualitative in-depth interviews were carried out with editors and reporters on the three most widely spread daily newspapers in Guyana. Also a quantitative content analysis, covering January-April 2014, was performed on the same newspapers. In total 159 articles that reported on cases of violence against women were found and coded. The result indicates that the reporting in Guyana conforms to previous research. The conclusion is that when it comes to context, language and sources used, the newspapers generally fail to work with violence against women adequately. The reporting preserves and reproduces patriarchal power structures by using victim blaming or perpetrator excusing language, not covering it as a social issue and overusing official sources. Furthermore, the result indicates that there are unwritten policies on the newspapers. However, these guidelines are not always followed. The study indicates that the reporting is not given enough resources in terms of time and money, which might be a result of that reporters and editors do not experience that readers are interested enough for the topic to get sufficient resources.
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Ng, Fung Sheung Isabella. "Living up to your [self]stereotypes? : a study of Hong Kong female journalists." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2004. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/536.
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Black, Latoya R. "Breaking barriers : oral histories of 20th century African-American female journalists in Indiana." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371196.
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This study introduced six African-American female journalists in Indiana and provided an intimate account of their perception of media in regards to African-American female journalists of the 21st century. The women were publicly analyzed with a series of questions and candidly discussed the role of Black female journalists at work, in their personal lives, and their communities in general. The women shared similar responses in regards to four main topics: diversity in media, gender-related challenges, career enjoyment and impact on their communities. The most pressing issue of concern was diversity. All of the women agreed that diversity is ineffectively addressed and provided suggestions. The two research questions concluded (1) none of the women credited any female pioneer in Black journalism to their success and (2) the women did not credit early Black female journalists toward their decision to obtain longevity in journalism.Department of Journalism
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Devereaux, Ramírez Cristina Victoria. "Claiming the discursive self Mestiza rhetorics of Mexican women journalists, 1876-1924 /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
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Armstrong, Jessica Plasketes George. "A narrative look at the regional voice of political columnist Molly Ivins." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/master's/ARMSTRONG_JESSICA_45.pdf.
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Greenwald, Marilyn S. "The life and career of journalist Charlotte Curtis : a rhetorical biography /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487688507503189.
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Kevci, Perisan. "Women journalists on the path of truth -an intersectional and critical discourse analysis." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45970.
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Lake, Hillary Ann. "Gender, race, commercialism, and news values in television : an ethnographic case study of NBC News anchor and correspondent Ann Curry at work /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1683355171&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 383-401). Also available online in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Hughes-Watkins, Lael I. "Fay M. Jackson : the sociopolitical narrative of a pioneering African American female journalist /." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1213112337.
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Nodoba, Todani. "The political role of black women journalists in post-apartheid South Africa : Sowetan (1994-1999)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18112.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Black journalists in South Africa have played a crucial role in exposing the political oppression of black South Africans during the Apartheid era. In this regard the Sowetan newspaper made a great contribution. However, the political role that black women journalists played at the Sowetan has been ignored, before and after 1994. After 1994, political black women journalists at the Sowetan continued to make strides despite the hostile environment that these women journalists worked in. The limitation of beats and assignments, lack of promotions and many other challenges that black women journalists faced during this period made their work environment unfriendly and hostile towards their performance. This study examines the political role made by black women journalists at the Sowetan newspaper from 1994 to 1999. The study shows how the black women journalists brought different perspectives in news at the Sowetan through their manner of reporting and also how they viewed matters within the context of a new democracy in South Africa.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Swart joernaliste in Suid-Afrika het ’n onontbeerlike rol gespeel in die onthulling van die politieke onderdrukking van swart Suid-Afrikaners tydens die apartheidsjare. In hierdie verband het die Sowetan-koerant ’n groot bydrae gelewer. Die politieke rol van swart vrouejoernaliste by die Sowetan is egter geïgnoreer, voor en ná 1994. Ná 1994 het politieke swart vrouejoernaliste by die Sowetan steeds opgang gemaak, ten spyte van die vyandige omgewing waarin hierdie vroue gewerk het. Beperkte opdragte en spesialisonderwerpe om te dek, ’n gebrek aan bevordering en die talle ander uitdagings wat swart vrouejoernaliste in hierdie tydperk moes trotseer, het hul werksomgewing onvriendelik en vyandig gemaak met betrekking tot hul werksverrigting. Hierdie studie ondersoek die politieke rol wat vanaf 1994 tot 1999 deur swart vrouejoernaliste by die Sowetan gespeel is. Die studie toon aan hoe die swart vrouejoernaliste ander nuusperspektiewe na die Sowetan gebring het, met die wyse waarop hulle verslag gedoen het en ook waarop hulle aangeleenthede in die breë verband van ’n nuwe demokratiese bestel in Suid-Afrika beskou het.
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Smed, Akvelina. "The role of the female Balinese journalist : A qualitative field study covering the complex role of women journalists in the Balinese society." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Journalistik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32824.
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The Hindu island of Bali is a patriarchal society and the Balinese people’s everyday tasks are woven together with their many cultural and religious rituals and actions. Bali is one of the most famous and most visited islands of the wide spread island nation of Indonesia. Here, the concept of cultural tourism is established – a concept which regards the rich Balinese culture as a tourist draw, something that motivates the Balinese people to safeguard their regional identity and culture. These strives although tends to collide with the strives towards a more gender equal society. This study investigates the role of the Balinese female journalist – both within the newsrooms and in the society in general. It is based mainly upon in-depth interviews with women journalists in Bali. The theoretical framework orbits around a gendered approach to the theory of Journalism Culture, which combines concepts such as doxa and social fields to explain the dynamic and dichotomizations within the professional field. Masculine domination theories are also used. The results of this study reveal a complex situation where the female journalists perform a challenging balance act in order to perform their very best both at work, at home and in the society.
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Holmqvist, Débora. "“We still have a long way to go”: A comparative study of Swedish and Brazilian women sports journalists’ challenges and perspectives." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Journalistik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41130.
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Sports journalism is a traditionally male-dominated environment. Previous research has shown that women sports journalists were outnumbered in newsrooms, had less career opportunities, have been exposed to harassment and must negotiate identity contradictions in order to succeed in their career. Most previous studies have explored English-speaking countries and little was done in Scandinavia and Latin America. This study aimed to analyze the perceptions and experiences of Swedish and Brazilian women sports journalists from gendered journalism cultures perspective, drawing a comparison between these countries. Through qualitative approach, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with seven women sports journalists from Sweden and Brazil and found that there are more similarities than differences between the two countries. Despite the different contexts, Swedish and Brazilian women sports journalists who participated in this study are overall satisfied with newsroom environment, they claimed that women journalists have gained more space, respect and voice in sports departments in comparison to when they started working in the field. However, they also pointed to some remaining issues such as sexist jokes and a feeling of having to prove their knowledge and capability. Another similarity observed was the perception that sports journalism has highly improved in relation to gender equality and, although the challenges still exist, they are less visible now. This study also found that the biggest difference observed between participants from Sweden and Brazil was the understanding of sexism and woman identity. While Swedish interviewees showed a more complex awareness of these concepts, Brazilians participants demonstrated some confusing comprehension, exposing more contradictions regarding these matters.
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Hutelmyer, Laura L. "Gertrude Bustill Mossell and "Our Woman's Department" advocating change through a weekly advice column, 1885-1887 /." Click here for download, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1273139921&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Pusapati, Teja Varma. "Model presswomen : 'high-minded' female journalism in the mid-Victorian era." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8af9c31b-bf92-4fb3-95f9-e5d6f8f46b83.
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This study contributes to current critical discussions about the figure of the Victorian woman journalist. Most previous scholarship on nineteenth-century female journalism has focused either on women's anonymous writings or on their contributions to conventionally feminine genres like serial fiction and prose articles on domesticity and fashion. Although women's campaigning journalism has attracted some attention, especially from historians of feminism, its role in the professionalization of women writers has gone largely unexamined. Consequently, it has been assumed that female journalists did not write on social and political issues, unless they wrote anonymously or as reformers with little interest in developing careers as presswomen. This thesis radically revises this view by showing the mid-century rise of female journalists who wrote on serious social and political topics and earned national and international repute. They broke the codes of anonymity in a number of ways, including signing articles in their own names and developing distinctly female personae. They presented themselves as model middle-class professional authors: knowledgeable, financially independent and vocationally committed. They proved, by example, women's fitness for conventionally masculine lines of journalism. By examining their careers in the periodical press, my thesis offers the first in-depth analysis of 'high-minded' female journalism in Victorian England. Beginning with the 1850s, the thesis is organised around certain key developments in the periodical press, such as the debates about professional authorship, discussions of the plight of single women and the nature of female work, and the advent of signed publication. It examines the rise of prestigious presswork by women through the study of three distinct, yet overlapping models of the female professional journalist: the feminist journalist, the mainstream reform journalist, and the foreign correspondent. It then discusses the representation of women's high-minded journalism in the domain of fiction. The study ends in the 1880s, noting how these mid-Victorian models of women's presswork influenced the discussion and practice of female professional journalism in the 1890s.
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Zhou, Precious. "Gendered experiences of women journalists in male-dominated spaces : a focus on the print media industry in Zimbabwe." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57234.
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Gender is an important tool in analysing power relations in organisations. In this study focusing on gendered experiences of women journalists in the print media industry in Zimbabwe, I draw on Scott s understanding of gender as a category of analysis that signifies unequal power relations as well as Acker s theory of gendered organisations. 12 women working in five different media houses in Harare were interviewed in the study. I argue that journalism is a gendered profession that privileges men and masculinity resulting in the exclusion of women. While organisations have been described as gender-neutral, I argue that there is no gender-neutrality within the journalism profession as patriarchal relations that exist in society permeate into the newsroom. The research findings illustrate that journalism is structured around the concept that a man is the ideal worker and body in the workplace and that women are therefore excluded. Social constructions of masculinity and femininity underlie the division of work and are used as a form of control in the newsroom. The findings demonstrate that masculinity is prioritised through the gendered allocation of assignments. As a result, a masculine culture that emphasises the competitive nature of the profession is dominant. Women and their association with the domestic sphere, reproduction and child-care are perceived as unsuitable for this profession. The research found that sexual harassment is prevalent and is a form of violence used by men to control women s bodies and limit their career growth. The study examined the strategies employed by the women journalists to cope with the challenges they encountered.Mini Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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San, Miguel Cynthia M. "Are female journalists making progress? : a content analysis of the New York times from 1965-2005." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371474.
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With the women's movement of the 1960s, more career opportunities opened to women. Women now had the opportunity to work fulltime at jobs that were once held by men only. Accordingly, female reporters became a larger part of the newsroom, but male and female reporters were not being treated equally. For example, female reporters were assigned news topics that included human interest and education, and male reporters were assigned stories dealing with war and politics. Past research has examined bylines of small, medium, and large newspapers and the news topics male and female reporters have covered.The present study is a content analysis examining the years 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, and 2005 of the New York Times. The study examined male and female bylines, along with topics of news stories, sources used by male and female reporters, and collective sources. The findings suggest that female reporters are making some strides in the newspaper business. Stories by female reporters more often appear on the front page currently than in the past. However, male reporters are writing about "feminine topics," such as education, and human interest. Lastly, female reporters use more female sources in stories than their male counterparts.Department of Journalism
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Martin, Margaret Kathleen. "Discovering Lily Lewis, a Canadian journalist and new woman." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq63899.pdf.
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Schlingmann, Sabine. ""Die Woche" - Illustrierte im Zeichen emanzipatorischen Aufbruchs? Frauenbild, Kultur- und Rollenmuster in Kaiserzeit, Republik und Diktatur (1899-1944) ; eine empirische Analyse /." Hamburg Kovač, 2007. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-3026-3.htm.
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Mumah, Jenny N. "Where are the Women in the Ebola Crisis? An Analysis of Gendered Reporting and the Information Behavior Patterns of Journalists Covering a Health Outbreak." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404561/.
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Health officials estimate that the 2014 Ebola crisis disproportionately victimized women, who made up 75% of the disease's victims. This interdisciplinary study has two main goals. The first is to evaluate the news media's performance in relation to their representation of women caught up in the Ebola crisis because the media play an important role in influencing public responses to health. This study sought to understand the information behavior patterns of journalists who covered the Ebola crisis by analyzing how job tasks influence a journalist's information behavior. This study employed qualitative methods to study the perceptions of journalists who covered the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with Liberian and American journalists who covered the outbreak to understand the choices that guided their reporting of the Ebola crisis. A content analysis of The New York Times, The Times, and The Inquirer was also conducted to examine the new media's representation of women in an outbreak which mostly victimized women. The findings suggest that covering a dangerous assignment like Ebola affected the information behavior patterns of journalists. Audience needs, the timing of coverage, fear, and the accessibility of sources, were some of the factors that influenced the news gathering decisions taken by the reporters. The findings also suggest that women were mostly underrepresented by the media as sources, experts and subjects.
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Schroeder, Monica Denney. "Women's sports coverage and female sportswriters : a content analysis of the sports sections of six Indiana newspapers." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/917020.
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The impact of a female sportswriter's presence on a newspaper staff was examined by content analysis, studying photo and copy space devoted to both male and female sports coverage. Composite weeks, one each from each quarter of the year following the woman's date of hire were selected from the only four newspapers in the state of Indiana hiring female sportswriters. Compared to similar Indiana newspapers without female sportswriters, those with female staffers were found to devote more copy and photo space to women's coverage in the entire sports section, and on the sports section front page, papers with female sportswriters used more photos of women and devoted more total space (photos and copy) to women's sports coverage. The effect was consistent regardless of the newspaper's market size.Department of Journalism
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Strothers, Evette Evelyn. "Beauty before the camera : the hiring of television newswomen /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299090312.
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Gerber, Melissa A. "Gendered Crisis Reporting: A Content Analysis of Crisis Coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC Evening News Programming, 1969 - 2007." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1217901857.
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Blankenship, Sara K. "Still on the Sidelines: the Female Experience in Sports Media." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699891/.
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This qualitative study aims to analyze the lived reality of women working in sports media today. Through systematic analysis of 12 in-depth interviews, the findings of this study suggest that the adoption of technological advancements in news media and all associated outlets have created a leveling effect for women due to the demand for highly skilled individuals who can handle the digital demand of modern news production. This study suggests that longtime gender disparities in sports media are experiencing a bit of a reprieve due to the massive digital audience and the need for professionals who can deliver information quickly and efficiently and with accuracy. However, the persistent symbolic annihilation of women as well as hegemonic hiring practices that emphasize aesthetic appeal have created a difficult path for women to move off the sidelines and into roles with more creative and analytical breadth, even with a rapidly increasing demand for jobs in the media industry.
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Jana, Kimberly L. "An attitudinal study of job satisfaction for full-time, on-air female personalities at commercial radio stations in Indiana." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1230607.
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The goal of this research was to provide how women in Indiana perceive their roles in the radio industry.Thirty-five female participants from across the state sorted Q statements that covered the following topic areas: relationships with men, relationships with co-workers, personal on-air work, career opportunities/education, and personal life.Through an analysis of the Q sorts collected for this particular study, three distinct factor types were found: Optimists, Pessimists, and Neutralists. The Optimists are enthusiastic about their work in radio and do not feel as if they have been slighted by male co-workers or managers. Pessimists, while they expressed a general enjoyment of their work, are overwhelmed with feelings of suppression by the men with whom they work with. Finally, the Neutralists seem uncertain of any professional limitations in the radio industry because of male dominance.There was little evidence that the three groups in relation to age, level of education or years in radio was related to the three factor types.Department of Journalism
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Collins, Janice Marie. "Finding Leadership in the “Real World” of News: The Professional Socialization of Leadership Development and Issues of Power, Gender, Race, and Self Esteem in a College Broadcast Journalism Lab, A Case Study." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1236724544.
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Quinn-Leandro, Jacqui C. "Women’s professional status in Caribbean television : parity: perception and reality." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=67482.
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A considerable body of work on women's television careers exists in Europe and North America, but the English-speaking Caribbean countries have never been investigated for their regional practices. This dissertation fills this void by addressing three major themes: a) the discrepancies between the high female labour force participation rates and their low representation in media management positions; b) the role of Caribbean gender ideology and stereotypes in excluding females from the professions; and c) the dearth of anti-discrimination and equity legislation in the region, their impact on female professional careers; and what can be done to ameliorate the working conditions of female broadcasters in the Caribbean. Historically, there has always been a significant percentage of women in employment in the Caribbean: during slavery, women outnumbered male workers on the plantations. The last two decades have seen a marked movement of women out of agriculture and into the service sectors including tourism and banking; as well as communication and some of the professions. As elsewhere in the world, gender structures and fragments the contemporary Caribbean labour force; and the tendency for men and women to have access to qualitatively different types of jobs is a persistent feature of both professional and general employment patterns in the region. This thesis investigates journalism as one of the prestige professions, which has attracted female personnel since the 1960s; and compares their access, promotion and remuneration to that of the male professionals. The thesis further uses Canadian and American findings to determine the informal barriers encountered by females in building their careers, as well as asesses the equity legislation and its impact on the region. Two comprehensive surveys covering all Television stations in the Anglophone Caribbean provide the data for the thesis; which are similar to those used by Robinson/St. Jean (1997) in Canada and WeaverIl existe en Europe et en Amerique du nord de nombreuses etudes sur la vie professionnelle des femmes oeuvrant dans le domaine televisuel. Aux Caraibes Anglophones, par contre, il n'existe aucune etude de ce genre. Ce travail vise a combler ce vide en considerant le probleme sous trois angles principaux: a) les ecarts existant entre le taux eleve de la main-d'ceuvre feminine dans le domaine televisuel et la sous-representation des femmes parmi les cadres superieurs du secteur des medias b) le role de l'ideologie et des stereotypes de sexes aux Caraibes dans l'exclusion des femmes des postes de responsabilite au sein des entreprises mediatiques et de la penurie d'une politique de justice sociale et d'equite d'emploi dans la region et ses consequences sur les carrieres des femmes; et dans quelle mesure it serait possible d'ameliorer les conditions de travail des femmes dans le domaine de la telediffusion aux Caraibes. Historiquement les femmes des Caraibes ont toujours constitue un pourcentage important de la main-d'ceuvre: pendant l'esclavage, le nombre de femmes travaillant sur les plantations depassait celui d'ouvriers de sexe masculin. D'ailleurs, au cours des deux demieres decennies, les femmes ont de plus en plus abandonne le secteur de l'agriculture au profit de celui de services et de consommation, y compris le tourisme et les operations bancaires, la communication et certaines autres professions. Comme ailleurs dans le monde, l'appartenance sexuelle conditionne et influence le decoupage de l'effectif aux Caraibes contemporaines; la tendance selon laquelle les hommes et les femmes occupent des postes qualitativement differents est donc une caracteristique permanente des politiques d'emploi de la region. Cette these analyse le journalisme comme profession de prestige ayant attire les femmes depuis les annees 60 et compare leur acces au travail et a la promotion et leur remuneration a ceux de leurs homologues masculins. La these s'inspire des resultats d'etud
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Peko, Samantha N. "Stunt Girls: Elizabeth Bisland, Nell Nelson, and Ada Patterson as Rivals to Nellie Bly." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1468945971.
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Mangun, Kimberley Ann. "Beatrice Morrow Cannady and The Advocate building and defending Oregon's African American community, 1912--1933 /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3181108.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 484-511). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Clarke, Patricia, and n/a. "Life Lines to Life Stories: Some Publications About Women in Nineteenth-Century Australia." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040719.150756.
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This thesis consists of an introduction and six of my books, published between 1985 and 1999, on aspects of the history of women in nineteenth-century Australia. The books are The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882 (1985); A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857 (1986); Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia (1988); Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson, Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist (1990); Tasma: The Life of Jessie Couvreur (1994); and Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist (1999). At the time they were published each of these books either dealt with a new subject or presented a new approach to a subject. Collectively they represent a body of work that has expanded knowledge of women's lives and writing in nineteenth-century Australia. Although not consciously planned as a sequence at the outset, these books developed as a result of the influence on my thinking of the themes that emerged in Australian social and cultural historical writing during this period. The books also represent a development in my own work from the earlier more documentary-based books on letters and diaries to the interpretive challenge of biographical writing and the weaving of private lives with public achievements. These books make up a cohesive, cumulative body of work. Individually and as a whole, they make an original contribution to knowledge of the lives and achievements of women in nineteenth-century Australia. They received critical praise at the time of publication and have led to renewed interest and further research on the subjects they cover. My own knowledge and expertise has developed as a result of researching and writing them. The Governesses was not only the first full-length study of a particular group of letters but it also documented aspects of the lives of governesses in Australia, a little researched subject to that time. A Colonial Woman, based on a previously unpublished and virtually unknown diary, pointed to the importance of 'ordinary' lives in presenting an enriched view of the past. Pen Portraits documented the early history of women journalists in Australia, a previously neglected subject. Three of the women I included in Pen Portraits, Louisa Atkinson, Tasma and Rosa Praed, the first two of whom were pioneer women journalists as well as novelists, became the subjects of my full-length biographies. In my biographies of women writers, Pioneer Writer, Tasma, and Rosa! Rosa!, I recorded and interpreted the lives of these important writers placing them in the context of Australian cultural history as women who negotiated gender barriers and recorded this world in their fiction. My books on Louisa Atkinson and Tasma were the first full-length biographies of these significant but largely forgotten nineteenth-century women writers, while my biography of Rosa Praed was the first for more than fifty years. Each introduced original research that changed perceptions of the women's lives and consequently of attitudes to their creative work. Each provided information essential for further research on their historical significance and literary achievements. Each involved extensive research that led to informed interpretation allowing insightful surmises essential to quality biography.
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Sánchez, Llama Iñigo. "Galería de escritoras isabelinas : el caso de la prensa periódica, 1833-1895 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9804036.
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Pfeffer, Miki. "Exhibiting Women: Sectional Confrontation and Reconciliation in the Woman's Department at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 1884-85." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/339.
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At the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, the Woman's Department offered women of all regions of the country an opportunity to exhibit what they considered "woman's work." As women came together and attempted sectional reconciliation, controversy persisted, especially over the selection of northern suffragist Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," as the Department's president. However, during the course of the event, which lasted from December 16, 1884 to May 31, 1885, New Orleanians and other southern women learned skills and strategies from participants and famous women visitors, and these southerners insinuated their voices into the national debate on late-nineteenth-century women's issues.
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Perkins, Katherine C. "Jill Jackson: Pioneering in the Press Box." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2267.
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Jill Jackson was one of the first female sports journalists and a pioneer voice for women in athletics. Although heretofore overlooked in the history of American sports journalism, the story of her career is an addition not only to the historiography of female sports journalists but also to the broader study of women in the mid-twentieth century. Jackson was admired, a hard worker, from a prominent New Orleans family, and well educated, yet she still was treated unequally in her primary workspace—the press box. Jackson left well-documented story to the Nadine Vorhoff Library and Special Collections at Newcomb College Institute in New Orleans. The collection, comprised of scrapbooks, photographs, letters, and newspaper articles, reveal the struggles and rewards of her impressive career.
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Rabey, Jennifer Ann Carter David C. "A woman's good works the life of Inez Jessie Turner Baskin and her fight for civil and human rights in the Cradle of the Confederacy /." Auburn, Ala., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1936.
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Carrasco, Rocamora Mavi. "Periodismo en Cataluña, de la dictadura a la democracia: la incorporación de las mujeres a las redacciones de los diarios de información general (1966-1986)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/457748.
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A partir de finales de la década de los 50 la sociedad española vivió un proceso de apertura que influyó en la vida económica y social del país; y que, a la muerte de Franco, desembocó en la transición y consecución de la democracia.
Esta transformación afectó también la realidad socio-laboral de las mujeres, consecuencia tanto de las modificaciones del sistema productivo como de cambios legislativos e ideológicos.
A pesar del discurso oficial, a partir de finales de la década de los 50, con la crisis y el desarrollo industrial creciente que conllevaron la salida masiva de emigrantes del país, un éxodo del campo a la ciudad y, poco a poco, la incorporación en el mercado laboral de las mujeres y, el tímido proceso de apertura al exterior, se comienza a extender la idea de que es importante facilitar los estudios para que, en el futuro, las niñas también tengan acceso a mejores trabajos, e incluso a mejores maridos de niveles sociales más altos.
Así, las protagonistas de esta tesis doctoral, las nacidas en la Tercera Generación del siglo XX (1940 -1960), de clases medias y acomodadas, acceden a la educación primaria y secundaria con la Ley de Ordenación de la Enseñanza Media de 1953 en vigor. Esta regula la educación secundaria y, aunque atribuye a las chicas las Enseñanzas Hogar y una prueba específica en la reválida cuya no superación impide la obtención del título, permite consolidar la presencia femenina en las aulas.
A estas mujeres, el acceso a la educación les permitió dotarse de unas herramientas con las que, una vez ya en la vida adulta, pudieron decidir abandonar, no perpetuar, el modelo tradicional de mujer destinado a los espacios privados y/o domésticos; y que quisieran participar en los espacios públicos: conseguir un puesto de trabajo. Así, rompieron con el modelo con el que habían vivido y visto en casa, en el que la madre -en la mayoría de casos- no trabajaba fuera del hogar.
Por otra parte, no se debe olvidar el papel que, durante estos años, jugaron los profesionales del periodismo. En 1966 se promulga la Ley de Prensa e Imprenta (conocida como Ley Fraga) fruto directo de la necesidad de apariencia democratizadora de la que el Régimen se vio obligado a dotarse para adaptarse a los cambios socioeconómicos del país. Sobre el papel se eliminaba la censura, aunque en realidad, trasladaba el control previo de la información al propio director del diario, se imponía la censura previa. Ese mismo año se crea el Grup Democràtic de Periodistes; y en 1968, se reabre la Escuela Oficial de Periodismo de Barcelona.
La nueva realidad social que se estaba configurando, ¿significó la incorporación masiva de mujeres en las redacciones de los medios? ¿Lo hicieron en igualdad de condiciones que sus compañeros varones? ¿Aumentó su presencia en las secciones del diario tradicionalmente ocupadas por hombres? ¿Alcanzaron puestos de responsabilidad? Los diarios con una línea editorial más progresista, ¿fomentaron su presencia y papel en sus redacciones?
Esta Tesis Doctoral intenta dar respuesta a estas preguntas a través de un análisis cuantitativo de fuentes hemerográficas (unidades informativas firmadas por mujeres) y de entrevistas a mujeres periodistas que ejercían la profesión durante estos años.Since the end of the 1950s Spanish society lived through a process of opening-up that influenced the economic and social life of the country. This process, once Franco was dead, culminated in the transition and the implementation of democracy. This transformation had also an effect on the socio-occupational reality of women, a consequence that was the result of both the modifications of the system of production and the changes in law and ideology. Despite the official discourse, since the end of the 1950s, with crisis and the growing industrial development that implied a massive emigration abroad, and an exodus from country to town, along with the gradual incorporation of women to the labor market and the timid process of external openness, the idea that it is important to facilitate girls access to studies so in the future they can have a better job and even a better husband, from a higher social class, begins to spread. In this way, the protagonists from this PhD thesis, those women born in the Third Generation of 20th century (1940-1960), from upper, well-off classes, get access to elementary and secondary school with the Organization of Secondary School Act, into effect on 1953. This law regulates secondary education and, even though it requires girls to learn Housework Education and to pass a final examination that, if failed, prevents them from obtaining the diploma, it lets the presence of women in the classrooms to consolidate. For these women, access to education provided them a set of skills that, once in adulthood, let them decide to give up, not to perpetuate, the traditional model that bound women to private and/or domestic spaces. It also made them want to participate in public spaces; that is, to get a job. Thus, they broke with the model they had lived through and seen at home, a model in which the mother – in most cases – did not work outside home. On the other hand, one must not forget the role that, during those years, was played by journalists. In 1966 the Press and Publications Act (also known as Fraga Law) is enacted. This law was a direct result of the Regime’s need to have a democratizing appearance in order to adapt to the socioeconomic changes of the country. On paper, censorship was eliminated, although in fact the previous control of information was just transferred to the very editors-in-chief of newspapers; prior censorship was still imposed. This same year the Democratic Group of Journalists is formed; and in 1968, the Official School of Journalism of Barcelona is reopened. Did the new social reality that was being configured imply the massive entry of women into the editorial offices of the media? Did those women get access to those media in equal conditions as their male colleagues? Did their presence in sections of the newspapers traditionally encumbered by men increase? Did they have access to positions of responsibility? Did the newspapers with a more progressive editorial line encourage the presence and the role of women in their staff? This doctoral thesis tries to provide answer to these questions throughout a quantitative analysis of both hemerographic sources (informative units signed by women) and interviews to journalist women that exercised this profession during those years.
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Warren, Lynne Helen. "For all sorts and conditions of women : an analysis of the construction of meaning and identity in 'Woman' magazine, 1890-1910." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2000. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/7345/.
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This study draws together a range of critical models in order to explore the ways in which the periodical functions as a particular cultural practice, both shaping and being shaped by the society in which it was produced. Focusing upon single women's magazine, Woman, across its entire publication span from 1890 to 1910, the study seeks to contribute a deeper understanding of the periodical text by situating it within its specific social and historical context. Through this comprehensive diachronic approach the study accounts for the changes occurring within a long-lived periodical which does not have one identity but several. The study also explores the complex web of relations between the text, its producers and its consumers, and the function of each in the creation and negotiation of meanings. The fragmentation of the periodical text into separate areas of writing, as well as its multiple points of production (from proprietors, publishers and editors to the many professional and amateur contributors), renders the magazine's construction of a stable textual identity problematic. A central question in the study, therefore, has been how to develop a critical model with which to address the plurality of a text in which genres and voices collide within an overarching editorial framework. The study also aims to redress the balance of existing critiques of the women's periodical press which have tended to marginalise the role of the reader both in the production of the text itself and in its interpretations. While the study explores the ways in which the genres of feature articles and editorials, competitions, correspondence and fiction in Woman functioned within the editorial framework as well as in response to circulating discourses, the central focus of the study is the interaction between consumers and producers in the construction of the text, and the ways readers absorbed, appropriated or resisted dominant modes of editorial discourse.
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Padgett, Brandice A. "Women in sports journalism : do the barriers still exist? /." View online, 1998. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211130723123.pdf.
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Tebello, Letsekha. "Ruth First in Mozambique: portrait of a scholar." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003108.
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Ruth First was an activist, journalist and sociologist trained by experience and credentialed by her numerous publications. Having lived most of her adult life as an intellectual and activist, First died in August 1982 at the hands of a regime and its supporters who intensely detested all these pursuits. This research project sketches the intellectual contributions made by the South African sociologist during her time at the Centre of African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. Her life like the newspaper she edited in the early 1970s was a Fighting Talk and this research project is about celebrating that life and valorising some of the life’s work that she left behind. Making use of qualitative research methods such as archiving, semi-structured interviews and contents analysis, this thesis sought to document Ruth First’s intellectual interventions while at the Centre of African Studies. Engaging with her work while she was in Mozambique and inserting her intellectual contributions, which like those of many African scholars have given way to debates from the global North, into our curriculum would perhaps be the real refutation of the assassin's bomb. This engagement is also crucial as it extends much further than the striking accolades which take the form of buildings and lectures established in her honour.
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Lotter, Rene Louise. ""Elixir of youth" or "Cancer potion"? The battle for the purse of the middle-aged woman and the role of the media in reporting themes in medical science." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97628.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The popular media ("Media" here referring to newspapers, magazines. television, internet) adds to confusion and panic when reporting on the risks and benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy for women (HRT). Most reports show bias, cast scientists as villains, or leave the reader more confused than before about terminology. The Southern African media does in general aspire to objectivity towards both the pharmaceutical and natural health industry. However, shallow or inept reporting, the need to generalise complicated findings and dramatise what's regarded as cold scientific news, create this bias and confusion. Misleading health reporting, in South Africa as much as anywhere else in the world, can change health behaviour and can even cost lives. Ethical health reporting can therefore be described as a matter of life and death. This paper aims to analyse the media for biased, confusing and alarmist reporting. It then aims to explain reasons for the bias or confusion. Fourteen reports are analysed. One Time magazine report, and 13 reports selected from the Southern African media.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Berigte oor Hormoonvervangingsterapie (HVT) vir vroue in die media ("Media") hier verwys na koerante, tydskrifte, televisie, internet) dra by tot verwarring en paniek. Die meerderheid berigte is bevooroordeeld, in die sin dat medici as booswigte uitgebeeld word. Indien hulle nie bevooroordeeld is nie, is berigte verwarrend, soms juis in 'n poging om konsepte te vereenvoudig. Die media in Suider Afrika aspireer wel tot objektiwiteit, teenoor beide die farmaseutiese sowel as die holistiese (kruie) industrie. Nietemin, oppervlakkige/oningeligte verslaggewing en die behoefte om ingewikkelde navorsing te vereenvoudig/interessant te maak, dra by tot vooroordeel en verwarring. Misleidende mediese beriggewing in Suid Afrika, net soos in die res van die wêreld, kan mense hoop om besluite te neem wat hul gesondheid kan skaad. Die belang van etiese verslaggewing kan dus as 'n kwessie van lewe en dood beskryf word. Hierdie studie ontleed berigte en ondersoek vooroordeel, verwarring of sensasionalisering. Redes vir bogenoemde word dan bespreek. Veertien berigte word ontleed. (een berig uit die Amerikaanse tydskrif Time, en 13 uit die Suider Afrikaanse media)
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Moore, Jaimee. "Women in Public Relations: Our Past, Present, and Future." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2560/.
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Since abolition, women have used the media to bring attention to causes and injustices in society. Issues faced by these women are some of the same issues faced by women in public relations today and possibly the future. This paper is the history of the women of pre-professional public relations in relation to their use of the media to bring about change and communicate with an audience. It also discusses the evolution of the public relations profession as it pertains to the parallel issues that the women of the first wave faced in relation to the second wave, or professional era. The paper will then synthesize these two eras in public relations and discuss the future of women in the profession as seen by researchers and women practicing at this time.
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Babcock, Jennifer L. "A Tale of Two Women: The Journalistic Narrative of Nancy Reagan." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/BabcockJL2007.pdf.
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St, Amour Emily K. "“Superhero Women, Extraordinary Impact”: A Historical PodcastSeries." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors156580162543617.
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Miklos, Alicia Z. "Mediated Intimacies: Legal, Literary, and Journalistic Textualities of Gender Violence in Post-War Nicaragua." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429722169.
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Merrall, Leah Claire, and Leah Claire Merrall. "Women in sports journalism: the status, the progress, and the sexism." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626740.
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It’s no secret that women face challenges in certain industries that their male
counterparts do not, and the sports journalism field is no exception. The historical
male dominance of sport and the restrictive locker room men’s club mentality
tends to extend to sports writing and broadcasting. While strides have been
made since the passing of Title IX and court rulings that have allowed women
sports reporters into locker rooms, the sports journalism industry lags behind
when it comes to progress. Lack of gender diversity on sports desks, in decisionmaking
positions, and in roles that men have dominated for decades all
contribute to this stagnation. Women in sports are continuously touted as the
“sexy sideline reporter,” are accused of lacking knowledge because of their
gender, and receive criticism for the sound of their voice. Despite these
challenges with sexism, female sports journalists of decades past and today are
the front line fighting for change so that a new generation can be inspired and
make women in sports journalism the norm, rather than the topic of a thesis. The
industry is not perfect and has a long way to go. But slowly, progress is being
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SMITH, Gregory Michael, and gms@aapt net au. "The predominance of women in public relations." Central Queensland University, 2006. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20070524.134535.
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As (almost) everyone in the Australian public relations industry knows, there
are more women than men. On average, the numbers in Perth (and
nationally) favour women by slightly more than three to one. However, the
figures are alarmingly high, and, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics
figures, make PR one of the most female-intensive industries in Australia.
This growing imbalance may have long-term effects which have yet to be
identified. This thesis, however, seeks to consider the reasons for this
situation.
The research aims to:
1. Examine the reasons for the growth in numbers of women and
numerical decline of men within public relations in Perth,
Western Australia, by considering the development of public
relations and how it has impacted on the composition of the
profession.
2. Examine future trends within the profession for both women
and men and what an imbalance may mean.
Patterns in the data clearly show that women outnumber men by almost 3:1,
with statistics consistent across all groups surveyed. For example, in
government PR practitioners are 71 per cent female, while in private practice
(both nationally and in WA) it is 74 per cent. In WA charities the figure is 75
per cent. At the universities it varies between 72 and 87 per cent. This study
examines the reason for the imbalance and whether an imbalance is good.
Whether the industry (professional bodies, educators, students and
practitioners) is concerned is up to it.
This work provides the first study of the gender composition of the industry
in Australia. As such, it should be a valuable tool in a number of areas. Like
many initial studies, it raises just as many questions as answers, and it
provides pathways for future study. It should lead to a wider examination of
further issues. For example: does the predominance of women in PR in
university courses cause concern among male students, perhaps leading them
to question their continued participation? Do male students wonder whether
the female dominance of PR courses will lessen their chances of
employment. And what do practitioners think of an industry that is feminine?
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Laissle, April. "“Lacking the Proper Authority”: How Women Found Their Voice in Public Radio." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1437049001.
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Everbach, Tracy. "Managing "Amazonia" a cultural case study of female leadership at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4088.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (June 28, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Omenugha, Kate Azuka. "African women as news : a cross-cultural study." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2005. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3129/.
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This thesis is concerned with the news construction of Africa, particularly African women in British and Nigerian newspapers. Informed by feminist epistemology as well as postcolonial theoretical perspectives, it explores the constitutive dynamics of race and gender as identities, which both depict and define African women. African women have historically been excluded from defining how they should talk and be talked about in cultural forms. This thesis uses the news as a negotiating space for certain African women [Nigerians] to participate in defining what it is to be an African woman. In doing this, the thesis serves a political end of giving 'voice' to African women as well as creates a form of dialogue between Western (British) women and African (Nigerian) women. This dialogue is crucial in feminism because the tensions, diversities and differences inherent in feminist debates have made meaningful conversations between women difficult. This study thus steps across cultures by offering a space for a cross-cultural dialogue on news constructs of African women's femininity. The thesis employs both quantitative and qualitative methods, which combine an analysis of texts and group discussions. In this study, I have conducted a symptomatic analysis of British and Nigerian newspapers during 2002, drawing on cultural studies tradition of textual analysis. Reflexive dimensions are an integral part of the whole research process. As a black African Nigerian woman in Britain, I embody some of the tensions and contradictions that characterise feminist cultural debates. This situation positions me squarely as the bridge between two cultures - as the pipe though which the words of one is carried to the other. This role is reflected in the thesis as my reflexive thoughts about the tensions and contradictions spread spasmodically throughout the thesis. By speaking and negotiating across cultures, this thesis provides an avenue for smoothening the tense relations existing between Western and African feminists and thus creates an opportunity for the possibilities of commonalities as well as an ethical relation with 'the other'.
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Williams, Anna Louise. "Post-feminism at work? : the experiences of female journalists in the UK." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11440/.
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Within the UK recent research has suggested that a belief in gender equality is becoming increasingly prevalent. Women are frequently framed as empowered individuals who are now enjoying a freedom to choose in every aspect of their lives, placing them on equal terms with men. From this perspective, feminism is consequently viewed as outdated and redundant. Such ideas have been labelled as ‘post-feminist’ by feminists and cultural theorists. However, as many feminists have argued, whilst considerable advances have been made, women in the UK are in fact far from experiencing ‘true’ gender equality. This study focuses on UK journalism, examining the impact of post-feminism on the experiences and beliefs of women working in an industry that has been identified as contributing to upholding post-feminist ideas through its cultural products. In 2002, the most recent large-scale survey of UK journalists revealed that this traditionally male-dominated industry was now one of the few occupations with almost equal numbers of men and women. However, despite this numerical equality, more women in journalism are clustered in lower status roles and in less prestigious areas than their male counterparts. It is possible that female journalists may thus be experiencing sustained workplace inequalities of a type not acknowledged by post-feminism. This research aims to provide an insight into the experiences of women working in the UK journalism industry through 49 semi-structured interviews with female journalists from newspapers and women’s magazines. There has been little previous research in this area; earlier work suggests however that female journalists’ experiences may be uniquely shaped by the existence of an individualistic occupational culture. This study consequently looks from a feminist perspective at the beliefs that female journalists hold about gender (in)equality, to reveal the way/s they interpret their working lives, investigating a possible affinity between journalistic work culture/s and post-feminist ideas.