“I am glad Mama Fm is empowering the community on different issues especially human rights” Anuka Kolehmainen chats with Kalpana Bhandari, an FK participant from Nepal. Anuka is a translator from Turku, south west of Helsinki the capital of Finland. She translates books and documents from English to Finish, for the listeners of Radio Robinhood. […]
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.
As Uganda Media Women’s Association, we advance that media plays a pivotal role in shaping societal attitudes, behavior and adaptations, among which is gender sensitive considerations.
