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General News of Sunday, June 9, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-06-09
Women in the media were asked to report any form of badual harbadment
Women in Media, at a recent forum held in Accra, called on media owners and managers to take an interest in badual harbadment issues in the newsroom in order to encourage others to report the culprits.
The forum, titled "Balancing in Newsrooms: Balancing in News Coverage; the role of the media in the fight against gender disparities ", was organized by the Alliance for Women in the Media in Africa (AWMA), a non-governmental organization that presents women in the media.
According to the women, it became difficult to report badual harbadment problems because it was the "culture of the newsroom" and the victim had no one to report to.
Policies to work and raise the family
Former journalists, presenters, journalists and editors, the speakers also called on media leaders to develop policies that allow women to balance their work while raising their families.
According to the women, there were no "support systems" in the newsroom to allow women to take on difficult roles, meet deadlines and raise families. As such, those who were unable to do all this ended up leaving their jobs to devote themselves to raising their families.
Report badual harbadment
Nana Ama Agyeman Asante, a Citi FM radio journalist, encouraged women to report acts of badual harbadment in the newsroom, regardless of the challenges.
She also urged officials to consider badual harbadment as a serious crime and as such, to implement the necessary sanctions.
To achieve a balance in the newsroom, she explained that it was necessary to treat both genders on an equal footing and to encourage mentoring, especially for the youngest.
Do not wait for HR policies on badual harbadment
Sarah Wachter, an international journalist and trainer in the United States of America, urged women not to wait for human resource policies before expressing their concerns about harbadment.
Taking as an example the popular "me too" movement of the social media hashtag, many women in the United States have been able to bring their authors to books simply by using the hashtag on the internet.
She said that "badual harbadment is pending in US newsrooms. Leading men in the newsroom lost their jobs with the movement. The movement took place because women are not heard by police, judges and others. "
The "me too" movement, which became viral in October 2017, is a campaign against badual harbadment and badual badault, particularly in the workplace.
Support systems
Ms. Gladys Afia Pokua Arthur, a copywriter at Multimedia, urged media officials to support women at work to enable them to take on difficult roles.
"Women balance the family with the deadlines of the newsroom. There is no support system, so some end up leaving their jobs. How do we also allow women with disabilities to be included in the media? The support system is not there, "she added.
Change situations in the press room
Addressing the forum, Ms Mawuena Trebarh, Executive Director of Inspire Africa Consult, urged media officials to include people with disabilities in their staff because some of them had been already joined the media, but the system was unfavorable to them.
"We need to create a space for people with disabilities, we need to change situations in the newsroom, we need to fill positions with men with progressive and diverse perspectives, as well as women who deserve to leave the door open to other women, "she said. I said.
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