Simorangkir, Deborah Nauli (2020) Journalism as a Gendered Profession in Indonesia. Asian women, 36 (3). pp. 1-25. ISSN 1225-925X
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Abstract
This research aims to analyze how gendering operates in Indonesia’s journalism industry by observing: 1) the obstacles that women journalists encounter in advancing their careers in comparison to men journalists; 2) the ways women journalists negotiate their professional role with their socially-constructed gender roles. In-depth interviews with 15 Indonesian women journalists are conducted and data are analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Findings show that women journalists often feel the need to join the boys’ club by adopting agentic traits traditionally deemed masculine in order to survive in their profession. However, when adopting such agentic traits as assertiveness and outspokenness, they are often criticized and even denied promotion. Women journalists often negotiate their professional roles and gender roles by not pursuing managerial positions because such positions can make it too difficult to juggle managerial and domestic duties. The results also indicate that family dynamics, organizational policies, and culture at large in Indonesia represent obstacles for women journalists’ advancement in their careers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman > HQ1075 Gender |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business Administration and Communication > Department of Communication and Public Relations |
| Depositing User: | Faisal Ifzaldi |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2022 08:43 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2023 06:03 |
| URI: | http://repository.sgu.ac.id/id/eprint/2372 |
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