PRESENTED BY: KARUNYA VINUKONDA

ANALYSIS of NEWSPAPERS

Introduction
Media is the buzzword of the era of globalisation It reflects Lifestyles Socialisation patterns Political Educational standards Societal hierarchy and images Hence, newspapers- a form of media

MAJOR AREA OF CONCERN

DEPICTION OF WOMEN IN THE MEDIANEWSPAPERS. Gender of the person writing the news Gender of the person being written about Examination of photographs Categorisation of the subject

CATEGORIES
Expert Victim Family member Perpetrator/ aggressor Celebrity Other

FINDINGS
Front page: importance 90% of front page bylines were by males. Men most likely to write about sports and business Women are more likely to write about showbiz and national issues

FINDINGS

FINDINGS
According to a study, Seen but not heard: How women make front page news by Jane Martinson, UK Women: Men: 61%- experts 82% - experts 19% - victims 2%- victims 11%- celebrities 5%- celebrities 5%- family members 4%- family members 4%- aggressors 6%- aggressors

FINDINGS
Social issues related to women got less than 9% while sensational stories relating to women mostly crime stories got between 52 to 63% in the newspapers [ Nitin Jugran Bahuguna]

FINDINGS
Womens issues are accounted for little over two percent from a study conducted on four main dailies in India Newspapers have sections for females where the reader is left only with the option of reading some personal gynaecological problems of married women or personal love hick- ups of young girls.

FINDINGS

PHOTOGRAPHS
Indecent ads Fashion Sports

THOUGHT-PROVOKING
Research STUDY BY Khokan Kumar Bag and Piyal Basu Roy on Some Basic Observation on Contradictory Representation of Women in Indian Perspectives Reasons for objectionable representation of women are stated as: Poverty, Hobby, Globalisation, Betterment of Living, Consumerism and External causes. They tried to correlate this indecent representation to the increasing number of crimes on women in India. Blame game?

GOVERNMENT MEASURES
Law of obscenity Secs 292, 293 and 294 of the Indian Penal Code [IPC] Indecent representation of Women [Prohibition] Act, 1986

IRONIC!
Even dead women cant catch a break; obituaries are also male-heavy 24% of the obituaries are only of women while the remaining are of men!

CONCLUSION
Turn media into an effective tool for promoting constructive change.

CONCLUSION
Representation of women as achievers at multiple levels is needed.

Government acts should be properly and strictly implemented. Cultural movement is required.

REFERENCES
Depiction of women in Indian media- Dr. Sanjeev K.Sharma Some Basic Observation on Contradictory Representation of Women in Indian Perspectives by Khokan Kumar Bag and Piyal Basu Roy A Health scare in Mass media by the Lancet , Volume 359, Number 9312 Girl health, girl power: Representations of Girl Health issues in contemporary mass media and the effect of the media on girls health behaviours by Philantha Sue-Hwa Kon Report of the Womens Media Center [WMC] Seen but not Heard: How women make front page news by Jane Martinson