Are the newspapers women-friendly?
Kim and Yoon (2009) categorized newspapers into two types: female-friendly newspapers and femaleunfriendly newspapers in terms of the story’s tone, gender equity tendency and use of conflict news
value in their news...
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Are the newspapers women-friendly?
Kim and Yoon (2009) categorized newspapers into two types: female-friendly newspapers and femaleunfriendly newspapers in terms of the story’s tone, gender equity tendency and use of conflict news
value in their news stories about women cabinet members. Though they did not find any significant
differences between the two, they found that male reporters used a more negative tone, emphasized
conflict news values more, used stereotypical references to women and employed less gender sensitive
perspectives than female reporters when it came to newspaper stories about women cabinet members
in South Korea. Akhileshwari (2005) noted that Indian English newspapers tended to push women into
feature and non-serious writing.
Thus there are fewer women journalists reporting and writing to reflect the feminist or even a genderneutral viewpoint in business newspapers. While women have made substantial strides into leadership
positions in academia, business, politics
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