4.3 The media cover the full spectrum of events, issues and cultures, including business/economics, cultural, local and investigative stories. On the whole, the media cover the full spectrum of events and subjects, although there is excessive focus on politics, to the detriment of, say, subjects about development, economics and business. Investigative journalism continues to be sporadic, unsystematic and supericial. 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: 3.7 (2005 = 2.4; 2007 = 3.6; 2009 = 4.0) 4.4. Equal opportunities regardless of race or ethnicity, social group, gender/sex, religion, disabilities and age are promoted in media houses. here is a major gender imbalance in newsrooms, and the journalism profession continues to be disproportionately male. In some newsrooms, there is not a single female journalist. his indicates that there are no (enforced) gender policies in the media in Mozambique. During the eighties, Rádio Moçambique encouraged a policy of attracting women to journalism as a career, but this initiative was never repeated or replicated by any other media houses. Nevertheless, through their own eforts, a group of female journalists has developed and has been gaining ground in the profession by working in areas traditionally dominated by men, such as economics, politics, sport, etc. he reason for the lack of women in the profession could also be linked to family and social responsibilities that result in the woman - as the epicentre of the home - being unable to dedicate herself totally to the profession and to the same extent as the male journalist. here are female journalists, for example, who are unable to 118 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER MOZAMBIQUE 2011