ABSTRACT
For a number of years in Indonesia, young women have been enrolling in, and grad-
uating from, media and communications degrees at university in much larger num-
bers than young men. However, women still constitute only a relatively small
minority of workers, and very few women hold managerial positions in the media
and communications industries. The gendered disjunction between training and
employment in this field of work is somewhat unusual. For the most part, male-
dominated professional occupations are served by professional degree pro-
grammes that are equally male-dominated – for example, engineering. It certainly
seems that there is something compelling about work in the media and communi-
cation industries that draws the interest of women yet marginalizes them at the job
appointment and workplace levels.
