Reporting Women
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Women make up roughly 50% of the world but is the media reporting the issues that matter to them? Do women want to hear more debate around taboo subjects like abortion and domestic violence or do they want to hear more success stories about women in the media? How could the media’s reporting of rape cases be improved? And, as news sources become more diverse, how can the mainstream media reflect the stories being discussed by women on social media?
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| 0:16.0 | Hello I'm Lee's Doucette. In the next hour on reporting women, we'll hear what women around the world think about the way media covers their stories. It's clear there is a huge gap between what women experience and the way newspapers, radio and TV journalists |
| 0:26.2 | report on those stories. |
| 0:28.1 | Later we'll hear from three BBC journalists. |
| 0:31.5 | Their job is to tap into what women would like for media around the world. |
| 0:36.7 | But first, Divia Aria, a BBC Women's Affairs journalist based in Delhi, |
| 0:42.1 | has been traveling around her country |
| 0:44.3 | speaking with young women from all walks of life. One subject, sexual violence |
| 0:50.0 | has been dominating headlines in India since the infamous gang rape in Delhi in 2012. |
| 0:57.0 | But the women you're about to hear believe that increased media attention isn't helping to improve the lives of Indian women. |
| 1:05.5 | Divia's report starts in Patna, the capital of the state of Bihar. |
| 1:10.0 | As you probably guessed I'm traveling on a rickshaw on a very busy road. |
| 1:18.8 | This is the heart of the Hindi speaking belt in India and ancient kings once ruled the country from here. |
| 1:25.0 | But in recent times the term beehari has gained negative connotations. |
| 1:30.0 | The state has one of the highest rates of child marriage in India and the lowest literacy rate. |
| 1:37.0 | To meet Bihar's young women, I've come to Magad Mahila College. |
| 1:44.0 | Mahila is the Hindi word for women. |
| 1:47.0 | Women's colleges remain popular in India. |
| 1:49.0 | It's often the only way a girl can get a degree as parents are normally reluctant to let their daughter |
| 1:56.1 | study alongside boys. I've come to a specially organized event to ask these young women |
| 2:02.4 | what we should be reporting on. |
| 2:04.0 | When there is a rape, |
| 2:07.0 | when there is a rape case, news channels run that news constantly which puts lots of mental |
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