Award-winning broadcaster Portia Gabor has recounted the surprising feedback she obtained from viewers whereas studying the information throughout being pregnant, highlighting the gender biases that persist in Ghana’s media trade.
Talking as a moderator on the official launch of the Technique Doc on Gender Equality within the Media in Ghana on Thursday, twenty seventh March 2025, Gabor shared how she and different feminine journalists proceed to face discrimination.
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“After studying the information, you get a random telephone name from a stranger telling you they don’t just like the gown you’re carrying.
Oh, I don’t like your coiffure.
And probably the most miserable second was after I was pregnant and studying the information on tv.
You simply obtain a message on social media: ‘A pregnant lady shouldn’t learn the information. You need to go and conceal.’
These are among the challenges that not solely I, however lots of my feminine colleagues, face. That’s why we’re right here at present—to be empowered,” she mentioned.
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She additionally highlighted the persistent gender disparities in newsrooms, notably in assignments.
“There’s a disparity between female and male anchors. Even in the case of interviews, the exhausting information is given to the male anchor, whereas the gentle ones are assigned to the ladies.
So we have to do extra to advertise gender equality within the Ghanaian media.”
Ladies in media nonetheless face discrimination
The occasion additionally featured Professor Audrey Gadzekpo, a communications marketing consultant and professor on the College of Ghana’s Division of Communication Research, who emphasised that ladies in media proceed to face discrimination, typically by way of digital platforms.
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“The Beijing Platform for Motion set an bold imaginative and prescient for gender equality, however a lot of that imaginative and prescient stays unfulfilled.
Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, we recognise the progress made, but it surely has been at a really gradual tempo.
Within the media and broadcasting panorama, we have now witnessed each good progress and chronic challenges. Whereas ladies have more and more entered newsrooms and manufacturing studios, they proceed to face discrimination, typically perpetrated online or using digital technology.
That is the truth many ladies in Ghana’s media trade confront each day,” Prof Gadzekpo acknowledged.
A name for gender equality within the media
The launch of the Technique Doc on Gender Equality within the Media in Ghana varieties a part of the “Equal Voices” undertaking, an initiative by the Media Basis for West Africa (MFWA) and Canal France Worldwide (CFI). The undertaking goals to fight gender inequalities within the media and promote ladies’s illustration in management roles.
Regardless of progress, analysis has persistently highlighted gender disparities in Ghana’s media trade. Ladies stay underrepresented in decision-making positions and sometimes encounter institutional, structural, and cultural limitations that hinder their profession progress.
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The Technique Doc/Roadmap presents actionable methods for policymakers, media organisations, and stakeholders to bridge the gender hole and create an equitable and inclusive media panorama in Ghana.
