Abstract
This study examines gender-based inequalities in Pakistan’s news
media industry. For this purpose, our study applied qualitative
measures to investigate workplace gender discrimination in
national media setups. To provide a comprehensive scenario,
regarding problems of gender based discrimination, faced by
women journalists in Pakistan, this study analyzed written
interviews of respondents about disparities in wage gap,
opportunity discriminations, and misconduct at workplaces.
Existing research, on work-place gender inequity in industrial
and commercial setups of Pakistan, predominantly excluded
media industry in its research focus. Though on global scale,
gender-based discrimination in news industries of developed and
developing nation-states are widely researched and published, in
the Pakistani media women journalists’ experiences of genderbased discrimination are hardly investigated. In this background,
this study, with its results, is of significance for better
understanding of workplace inequities and issues in our national
industrial sector, in general, and in our news media industry, in
particular.
Muzammil Saeed, Riffat Saleem, Muhammad Atif Khan. (2021) Gender-based Inequality in workplace: The case of Media industry in Pakistan, Journal of Media Studies, Volume-36, Issue-1.
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