مواجهة التمييز و التحرش الجنسي المتفشي في مجال العمل الإعلامي في لبنان

Abstract EN

This study shows how institutionalized gender discrimination and the prevalence of sexual harassment of female journalists and the absence of laws and codes of conduct that protect women and help them endure and advance in their work systematically lead to creating a discriminatory environment that keeps most women locked outside of journalism careers, and discourages those who made it into the news industry from enduring in their jobs, seeking advancement, and occupying decision making positions, and indirectly leads to news content that ignores women’s problems and normalizes stereotypical representations of women in the media.

The study surveyed 250 female journalists from 60 Lebanese, Arab and international news institutions operating in Lebanon.

It aims to advocate laws and codes of conduct that explicitly reject sexual harassment and gender discrimination, to improve working conditions of female journalists in the Arab world through developing curricular material relevant for media literacy and journalism courses that help prepare aspiring journalists to protect themselves from gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace.