MOZAMBIQUE
public interest is expanding throughout the media organizations.
Individual scores: 			

4; 4; 3; 4; 4; 3; 3; 3; 4; 4

Average score: 			

3.6

4.4.

Gender mainstreaming is promoted in terms of equal 		
participation of both sexes in the production process.

Analysis:
This is an area where there is not enough progress and there is still
gender imbalance. Some male journalists sometimes even tell their
female colleagues that journalism is not for women. This causes
women not to feel motivated to join the profession. Recently there
was a public recruitment drive for Radio Mozambique journalists in
the capital of Zambézia Province, Quelimane. All the fifteen applications belonged to men.
Individual scores: 			

1; 1; 2; 2; 2; 1; 2; 2; 4; 2

Average score: 			

1.9

4.5. Gender mainstreaming is reflected in the editorial content.
Analysis:
There is a growing number of women that are sources of information at official level. However, it will be difficult to reflect gender
equity in the news because the news does not depend from journalists but rather from the events. If the protagonists are men they
will be there but if those protagonists are women, men will also be
there; the Mozambican society is still mainly dominated by men in
as far as decision making is concerned. There are potentially more
men more news prone areas and what one is witnessing in the editorial content is not intentional.

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