By:
Insha Siddiqui, BMM
Student of SJMC Sem.-3rd
School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Back when we were young we always heard from the people that journalism is not safe for women’s, they have to do reporting at night, etc. but now this thinking has started to change in everyone’s mind because as you can see there are so many female journalists have shown the people that they are not less than anyone.
Women were restricted by custom from access to the journalism profession, sometimes they face significant discrimination.
“I always wanted to become a journalist but when I told my family they got scared that how can I work between so many males journalists but when time passes and they saw that there are so many women journalists have come in this field then they allowed me to study this profession”.
There are some serious problems faced by the female journalists in the places while assigning Beat, Stories, and promotion for higher posts.
Whatever difficulties women have faced they have never seen behind anyone, they are always one step ahead of everyone.
India’s first female journalist, Vidy Munshi worked for several newspapers and magazines, including, ten years with Russy Karanjia’s Blitz.
Like Vidy Munshi, there are many more female journalists who have given a new face to the journalism profession. Eg- Anjana Om Kashyap, Shweta Singh, Barkha Dutt, Nidhi Razdan, Gauri Lankesh, etc and many more has to come.
We should never underestimate the power of women in any field.