ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how women contribute to war reporting in a world of risk, how risk impacts on women and specific dangers for women in reporting conflict. The history of war reporting shows that the military and the media have been reluctant to accredit or assign women to report war. For a female journalist or producer, assumptions and behaviour driven by attitudes towards gender are encountered both from colleagues and from those she is filming or reporting on, and from all nationalities and cultures. Managing risk for women with children is a great challenge, but surveys have found that women war reporters tend to be single and without children. Female war correspondents have complained about discrimination, derogatory attitudes and sexual harassment by certain male sources. For war reporting, it threatens the loss of a female perspective on war and represents a risk to diverse and representative journalism.
