Media Women Resolve to Combat Gender Injustice

Female media practitioners in the Southwest Province have resolved to combat gender injustice in media houses.

Over 25 female journalists made the decision at the end of a 2-day workshop on gender justice in media houses. The workshop, organised by Buea based common initiative group, Nkong Hill Top, in partnership with the World Association for Christian Communication, took place at the Local Government Training Centre, CEFAM, Buea.

Members of the National Professional Media Women, NAPMEW, urged female journalists to sensitise bosses to recommend women for leadership positions, go out for more challenging assignments, organise programmes and write articles that will urge decision makers to give female media practitioners the opportunity to prove their worth.

One of the resource persons at the workshop drilled participants on how to advocate gender justice in media houses through a 10-step process which include: identifying the issue, setting objectives and goals, identifying the target audience, coming out with a convincing message, choosing the best channel of communication, building support and raising funds to finance the advocacy process, collecting data and monitoring etc.

At the close of the workshop, the participants designed an action plan to remedy the gender injustice they face in their various media houses.Most participants who spoke to The Post said they were delighted with the training.

They, however, said the time frame was inadequate to treat important issues on how female journalists could emancipate themselves, and so requested that more workshops be organised.