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Disparities between How Men and Women are Treated by Society

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250 Words Essay

  • Read the following article about gender disparity in the news media: https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-woman-problem-msnbc-fox-news-on-air-female-anchor-talent/
  • Watch this video about how male and female news anchors are expected to present themselves in Afghanistan and get a first-person opinion of the edict: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbqRF-ohWHo
  • Finally, view this controversial segment from The View, where many argued that the host(s) use their forum in a way to irresponsibly sway public opinion: https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-view-van-jones-sunny-hostin-ana-navarro-meghan-mccain-black-community-1234688349/

Assignment: This chapter obviously builds on the prior one about gendered organizational communication.  I would like for you to examine the disparities between how men and women are treated/viewed by society at large and how they communicate with one another or attempt to express their opinions.  

Another question to consider is this: due to their "marginalized" status, do women (in this instance, female reporters) feel the need to be "on the attack" rather than simply playing their prescribed passive role as interviewers or purveyors or information/opinion.  

250 words in an MS Word Document.

 

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Since time beginning, there has always been gender and racial disparities in the workforce. Issues of women being employed less or gettng paid less have been pervasive in society so much so that it has sparked a lot of discourses and protests worldwide. The notion that women are capable of doing less has been proven untrue by evidence of their roles in the family, community, and society.
Gender disparities in the news is something that can easily be observed. Men have been leading news programs predominantly in the past and it seems that many news networks have been resolving gender disparities in their crew, like Fox an MSNBC. This is what sparked an inquiry on how CNN hires their news anchors, specifically because they have almost half the female solo anchors compared to other networks (Levine, 2018), which, arguably, can be considered an act of marginalizing women. This marginalization is also seen in Afghanistan, where all females, including news a...
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