Women in Media : The Global SituationThe research paper on gender discrimination in Bangladeshi media is certainly a matter of misfortune, but I personally disagree with the researchers there as they have blamed the locals as far as the international media for this discrimination. I am thinking about the root of this situation. Is only the media sector is liable for this? Or anything else? In this sector I want to mention that, in the global context, women are severely suppressed by the male in all the sectors. This is also true that the days are changing and better days of gender equity and gender equality are on rise, but it obviously will take a bit longer time to change our (male) habituated in the changed environment where the man and women will be treated neutrally only as a human being not only in a sex-oriented way. So here what can we see, from the very beginning of a girl’s life, she gets repeatedly deprived from her normal humanistic behavior from the society, in each and every step in her life the society reminds her that she is a girl-going to be a woman whose duty will be just support a man. We bind that girl’s hands with our chain of so called social rules and regulations. In these circumstances how much transparency we should expect from our media, whether it’s national or international, when the world-wide picture of gender discrimination is almost same, and the media is also the human from our society. So this research topic and findings seemed a bit vague and meaningless to me as we are expecting a good harvest from such a tree that we have never thought to taken care of. So according to my limited understanding, I want to say that to see the woman in the media in a prestigious place where she will be never be discriminated, we first think about change our thought process, change the view of our social system. Certainly in that very case media also can play a vital role, but before media most effective steps has to be taken care in root level social thinkers as long as the opinion leaders of our society, which might be tough indeed, but not impossible.
