Claims of Female Discrimination in Media

Female Discrimination is still carried on by many of the people especially from the perspective of media context. In this 21st Century, female has to be respected and both female and male needed to be view as egalitarianism.

(Source: Di Tzetung, <http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/5/10/1305018716706/Hillary-Clinton-was-airbr-007.jpg>

(Source: Original picture from White House, <http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/5/10/1305021107362/Obama-Biden-Clinton-and-t-007.jpg>

It is clear that the editor of the New York Newspape- Di Tzetung has partial opinion toward female where this raises unfairness of feminist. From the findings referring to photography, Luebke, 1989 stated that message that is being communicating is that men are active, powerful, and important than women where it indicates that women are inactive, subordinate or unimportant. Additionally, Shifflett. B (1994) further suggested that with photographs, the proportion of the space for women decreased from 1988 to 1991 where 65% focused on men and 16% focused on women. All these are because women image in the mass media have some sort of detrimental impact upon both individual consciousness and collective social life (Gaye Tuchman, 1979, pp.528).

Women seem to have the same stereotypes as men do. As according to Julia T. Wood (1997), media pervade our lives, the ways they misrepresent genders may distort how we see ourselves and what we perceive as normal and desirable for men and women. However, Di Tzetung emphasized that women should be appreciated in terms of their capabilities but not their appearance.

In examining the images of women and men in news photographs, I personally think that the account on the prejudice to women in photographs is needed to be mending in respect to women authority and status. Not only that, ethics is an inherently subjective field. As a professional’s approach, the photojournalist must capture the truth and must not alter their photographs by recreate a situation as well as telling the truth because the meaning of an image can be manipulated through use in a false context or no context (Daniel R. Bersak, 2006).

References

Duncan, M.C. (1990), ‘Sports Photographs and Sexual Difference: Images of Women and Men in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games,’ Sociology of Sport Journal, Vol.7, pp. 22-41

Luebke. B (1989), ‘Images of Women and Men in newspaper photographs,’ Sex Roles, Vol. 20, pp. 121-133, <http://www.springerlink.com.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/content/t147g6x1918r3643/fulltext.pdf>.

Shifflett. B (1994), ‘Gender Equity in Sports Media Coverage: A Review of the NCAA News’, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Vol. 18, pp. 144, <http://jss.sagepub.com.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/content/18/2/144.full.pdf+html>

Gaye Tuckman (1979), ‘Women’s Depiction by the Mass Media’, The University of Chicago Press, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 528-542, <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3173399>.

Julia T. Wood (1997), 'Chapter 9: Gendered Media: The Influence of Media on Views of Gender', Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture, pp.231-244, <http://www.udel.edu/comm245/readings/GenderedMedia.pdf>.

Daniel R. Bersak (2006), ‘Ethics in Photojournalism: Past, Present, and Future’, S.B. Comparative Media Studies & Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, .

The Guardian 2011, ‘Orthodox Jewish Paper Apologises for Hillary Clinton Deletion’, Associated Press, 10 May, viewed 5 November 2011, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/10/jewish-paper-apologies-hillary-clinton>.