{"id":15324,"date":"2023-02-14T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vikes-fi.staging.hel8.wp-cloud.dev\/?p=15324"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:44:07","slug":"equality-in-the-newsroom-women-still-not-running-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vikes.fi\/en\/uutiset\/equality-in-the-newsroom-women-still-not-running-the-media","title":{"rendered":"Equality in the newsroom – women still not running the media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In developing countries in particular, women are less well represented in the media than men. In Finland, too, media are more often run by men, although the majority of students in the field are women.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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In Finland, women make up a narrow majority of journalists, but in many other countries the situation is different. In the countries where Vikes operates, the proportion of women in the newsrooms<\/a> ranges from 20% in Nepal to 56% in El Salvador.<\/p>\n

In conservative Nepal, journalism is considered unsuitable as a profession for women, as the work involves travelling and being outdoors even after dark.<\/p>\n

In Tanzania, female journalists suffered more from covid Lucy Killanga<\/strong> of Vikes' partner organisation MISA Tanzania said in early 2022<\/a> that women were being made redundant far more than men because of the pandemic. Women who try freelancing typically stay at home, as the few gigs go to the men.<\/p>\n

However, discrimination does not stop at access to employment, but is present in the media at all levels. A regular report by the Global Media Monitoring Project<\/a> has some startling facts about the proportion of women in the media worldwide. The figures are from the 2020\/2021 report.<\/p>\n