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The Image of Women in the Press: How Do We Fight Traditionalist and Sexist Prejudices?

02 April 2018
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Why do women, compared to men, appear rarer on television when discussing politics, economics, and finance? Why don’t most media give equal access to women and men in news and programmes, and are not concerned with ensuring gender equality?  Why does the press perpetuate stereotypes about the role women have in the society?

These topics were discussed in Media Azi talk show by Nadine Gogu, the director of the Independent Journalism Center, Alina Andronache, Partner at the Development Partnership Center, and Alex Lebedev, founder of the diez.md portal.

Watch the guests at the talk show explaining the situations in which women, holding public offices, refuse to appear on screen and what journalists should do to make them feel comfortable in front of the video cameras. And last but not least, find out how journalists from the diez.md portal manage to balance out articles, managing to present a relatively equal number of men and women.

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“Media Azi” broadcast is weekly produced by the Independent Journalism Center. It is intended to disclose the problems faced at present by the journalists of the domestic media and to identify solutions to hem. The broadcast may be viewed on the websites www.moldova-azi.md, www.media-azi.md and mediacritica.md, as well as on the Youtube channel of the Independent Journalism Center. 

The broadcast was produced with the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, provided by the means of the Embassy of Sweden in Chisinau.