Volume 18, No. 5, 2021
Portrayal Of Women’s Issues In Leading Press Of India And Pakistan
Syed Ali Hassan Shah , Dr. Shahid Minhas , Dr. Abdual Ghani , Dr. Tasaddaq Hussain , Hamza Rehman Butt
Abstract
The current study is focused to analyze the Portrayal of women’s issues in leading press of India and Pakistan. Before the partition, both countries had the same cultural roots. Therefore, researchers analyzed either press portraying women's issues in sensational mode and how treating women's contribution in the socioeconomic and political sector? Researchers categorized women's issues into three subcategories social, political and economic sectors. The researchers selected newspapers Daily Dawn of Pakistan and the Times of India from India and collected 300 news stories equally from these selected newspapers from 2013 to onward on women's issues. The researchers applied the quantitative approach and content analysis as a method. The researchers used framing theory to support the study because the framing theory is more suitable to determine to treat and partying news. To get valid results researchers applied ANOVA test on the collected data. The results of the study indicate that the Times of India is highlighting the women’s issues in positive manners more as compared to Daily Dawn. The occurrence of noteworthiness and noticeable quality of women, related news Daily Dawn and the Times of India frequently published the news stories on the back page that show they give less significance to women's issues as partner male on the front page. This thing reflects that male dominance in the media. Moreover, the news headline intensity in Times of India was more and Daily Dawn represented with the balance approach. Both dailies more focused on social and after that political issues and gave less coverage to the economic development of women.
Pages: 261-273
Keywords: Pakistan, India Leading Press, News, Women, Issues, Treatment