MEDIA AND GENDER REPRESENTATION

INTRODUCTION

In most societies, women –regardless of race, nationality, class or age– are victims of
physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence, or even of feminicide. Gender-based
violence is the main obstacle to the achievement of women’s and girl’s human rights.

As this is a structural problem, directly linked to the sustaining of patriarchy, international,

regional and national organization(s) have called attention to the responsibility that key
institutions have to eliminate gender-based violence. One of these actors is media
industries.Media has an influence on knowledge, thought, and expression of violence against
women, it has led to the sexual inequality problem and the mentioned violence continuing in
society.

Three decades ago violence against women didn’t attract any significant attention either
internationally or domestic i.e. nation-states , but overtime with gender concept and
awareness of the plight of the female gender across cultures all over the world , particularly
in 1980’s , when women groups were organized locally and at international level to set the
agenda on violence against women as a “legitimate human rights issue” . To this effect there
have been sustained concerns by the international community on violence against women in
the different spheres of social interaction which is society wide and in specific local space
which are domestic, occupational and cultural spaces that violence against women mostly
occur.

OBJECTIVE ADN SCOPE

the primary objective of this project work is to gain the knowledge regarding the GENDER
REPRESTATION IN MEDIA and to analyse the laws for women and how media show the
postion of women in media and what is the postion of women in other sectors and how they
treated by society and what is the rato of women in other sectorx

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Simple methods of research will be employed which includes doctrinal descriptive, analytical
research, as well as data collected from various books on gender representation in media and also
the data taken from various articles, news reports, e-magazines and the reports published on the
internet will be analysed and formulated to have a basic solution to the project problem. In addition,
proper citations will also be done where required, in order to avoid any criminal liability for the
offence of plagiarism and to make the research work authentic.

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

The statement of the problem of GENDER REPRESTATION IN INIDA are as follows

-What is the ratio of women in other sectors?

-which gender consciousness approaches are more advantageous according to gender practitioners?

-How media show gender inequality in society?