From Workers to Queen Bees: obstacles to the women journalist careers
obstáculos que impactam a carreira das jornalistas
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Female career. Professional Women. Gender and Journalism. Work-Family and Maternity Conflicts.Abstract
This study discusses obstacles to the professional advancement of women journalists. We interviewed 24 journalists, 12 women and 12 men. The qualitative and descriptive research bases on semi-structured interviews and content analysis. The data showed that work-family and motherhood conflicts are obstacles to their career, but journalists form webs of cooperation to ease them, like bees, as long as they occupy similar functions. The female leadership proved to be more rigid with subordinate women. Therefore, the findings suggest that a culture of women in power may not be the only path to gender equality at work.
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