ABSTRACT
A growing body of literature on women and journalism shows the importance of considering the particular ways in which gendered power relationships are structured in news production. Ethnographic studies of newsrooms in the United States (Benedict 1992; Cuklanz 1994), the Netherlands (van Zoonen 1998), the United Kingdom (Young 1990), India (Bathla 1998), Indonesia (Sunindyo 2004) and developing countries in general (Byerly 1997; Anand 1992; Gifford 1984) find that men outnumber women both in total numbers and in management positions, and that where women succeed in journalism it is usually in traditionally ‘female’, and thus less prestigious, sections of the newsroom, such as in lifestyle, children, education and fashion (Skidmore 1998; Steiner 1998).
