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Safety of Women Journalists in Nigerian News Media: Exposing the Hushed Gender-Based Discriminations
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Author(s): Adamkolo Mohammed Ibrahim (University of Maiduguri, Nigeria), Nassir Abba-Aji (University of Maiduguri, Nigeria), Mohammed Alhaji Adamu (University of Maiduguri, Nigeria)and Phuong Thi Vi (University of Sciences, Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 24
Source title:
Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Sadia Jamil (Khalifa University, UAE), Barış Çoban (Doğuş University, Turkey), Bora Ataman (Doğuş University, Turkey)and Gifty Appiah-Adjei (University of Education, Winneba, Ghana)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6686-2.ch017
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Abstract
In recent decades, women journalists' professional safety has attracted an enormous research attention globally and in Nigeria. Interestingly, often similar findings are likely generated by most of the studies highlighting stiff gender-based challenges. This chapter investigated the safety experiences of Nigerian women journalists to identifying the typology of gender-based discriminations and coping strategy affected women journalists used to manage to work in a male-dominated media industry. Employing a semi-structured interview approach, 37 participants (25 women journalists, 10 men journalists, and 2 human resource managers) were interviewed from 12 broadcast media organisations in Northern Nigeria. The data were analysed using thematic analysis and the findings showed that Nigerian women journalists experience different types of gendered unsafety including discrimination in newsgathering and production and sexual harassment; most of the affected women used risky coping strategies such as ignoring; most media organisations lacked policies and frameworks to handle such cases.
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