Media short of women's issues<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: Local female journalists have to work harder for
\nrecognition than their overseas counterparts, a Fullbright
\nscholar said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Alice M. Klement told a discussion that local female
\njournalists were challenged by the traditional belief that women
\nshould stay at home or stop working after having children.<\/p>\n
\"Not only does Indonesian print media have different kinds of
\nchallenge, women journalists here have to work even harder to get
\nrecognition,\" said Klement, who owns Choice Words -- a writing,
\nediting, marketing and research body.<\/p>\n
She cited pressure over what they wanted to but could not
\nwrite as among the challenges facing local journalists.<\/p>\n
\"Journalists here are doing the hardest job in the world, and
\nits even harder for women,\" she said.<\/p>\n
Klement said the media had inadequate coverage of women's
\nissues. In the last decade, only 34 percent of journalists in the
\nAmerican print media were women, and only 10 percent of them held
\ntop management or decision-making positions.<\/p>\n
\"Once a woman gets a position as a decision maker she usually
\ntends to think of what the market wants, and the newspapers in
\nthe U.S. are mostly read by men,\" she said.<\/p>\n
She said this happened because newspapers did not cover enough
\nwomen's issues.<\/p>\n
\"And if they do\", she said, \"women are pictured in negative
\nways, for example, as unhealthy people, fearful of success, etc,\"
\nshe said, adding that this was a generalization.<\/p>\n
The Indonesians at the discussion agreed. They said that local
\nprint media had to increase its coverage of women's issues. (12)<\/p>",
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