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Women issues become more underrepresented in the wake of Covid-19 in media news

Motunrayo Alaka the leading advocate for the development of investigative reporting and accountability journalism suggested that to fight through for women visibility and gender equality, there is need to make more intentional steps by starting from teaching media.

Women visibility increases by 4% in Ugandan Media-Study

The study also realized a gender selective reporting where there is a relationship between the sex of the reporter and the proportion of female and male news subjects appearing in print news stories. Female reporters covered more female news subjects and quoted more females in their stories as opposed to the male reporters. In equal measure, male journalists gave more audience to male sources but also within talk shows of purely male presentation, women suffered a low engagement under similar likelihood.

Direction for the Women Movement in Uganda

“UMWA is honored to have consultatively contributed towards the Uganda Women Movement Strategy”. On Thursday 25 2021, UMWA engaged in a consultative meeting for an action plan towards a draft strategy for the Uganda Women Movement. This was facilitated by the United Nations Women at Skyz Hotel, Naguru. The strategy aims at strengthening the women’s […]