SECTOR 4 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator. 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 2.8 (2007: 3.7) 4.4. Equal opportunities, regardless of race, social group, gender/sex, religion, disabilities and age are promoted in media houses. Analysis While there may be no proactive push for equal opportunity in Ugandan newsrooms, there appears to be no conscious effort to shut anyone out. There is, however, still a long way to go to achieve equal participation of both sexes in the media. Reasons suggested for this phenomenon include problems with coping with a dual job (mother/profession), cultural taboos which limit mobility, and prejudice which drives women away from reporting hard news. In Lira, in northern Uganda, every woman at five different radio stations who went on maternity leave over the last two years lost her job. Currently, as it was in 2007, a third of media practitioners are women. The news editors at two of the more prominent radio stations – Radio One and Capital – are female, as are the editor-in-chief and the deputy editor-in-chief of New Vision. Media also suffer the same levels of discrimination that exist in society. While there may be some improvement in the capital Kampala, the same cannot be said of the whole country. 62 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER UGANDA 2010