Big news continues to pour out of the Middle East with freedoms for women, thought absurd 10 years ago, as women are pushing their way into the newsrooms and given the respect a true journalist deserves.
Sabria Jawhar, a female journalist from the Saudi Gazette, who wears a veil reveling only her eyes, was allowed into a Saudi Foreign press conference and given the honors by the minister to not only speak but asked the first and last questions during the conference. Along with women being allowed, at the Um al-Qora public university, to begin taking media and international relations courses, winds of change seem to abroad for women journalists in Saudi Arabia.
There are many problems still surrounding females in news reporting in Saudi Arabia, such as being advised to write using pseudonyms or not being allowed into editing rooms, this shows major progress into women's rights in the Middle East.
With a group of recommendations being given to better describe what the women's career ladder looks like in journalism, removing obstacles preventing women from being in journalism, and putting laws in place to better protect Saudi women, it is beginning to look like Americanization is starting to take off even in these, thought to be lost of all hope, Middle Eastern countries.
For women to begin receiving these privileges in Saudi Arabia that women in America have been granted for decades, great strides have been made and are still being made for Saudi women and hopefully that can catch on and women will be given their due respects that should be granted for hard work and dedication and they won't have to follow five steps behind their husbands anymore.
Saudi Women Journalists Are Coming Out Of The Closet
Wow this is horrible! Living in America, women have had these rights for a long time. I wonder what it takes for other countries to catch up and view women on the same level as we do in America.
ReplyDeleteThis is finally the right step in the direction for modern Islamic countries. Al Jazeera a Middle Eastern new broadcasting station has had to face similar issues with governments(dictatorships) in the past, and that was mostly run by men.
ReplyDeleteI think that it would be wrong though to get the mind set that the Islamic world as a whole was like this. Turkey allowed women to vote before the U.S. and Pakistan has already had a female president, something we haven't even done.
This is terrible! I am a firm believer that all people should be treated equal. It does not matter the color of your skin, what disabilities you have, or your gender. I know that I sound a little biased towards women, but they can do the same thing that the men can do in news reporting. It is hard to believe that something so little as to women's freedom in the Middle East, is something that we take for granted on a daily basis here in America.
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