KATHMANDU, JULY 18
A recent study by Media Action Nepal found that only 0.30 per cent of the news stories published in Nepali media had bylines of female journalists.
Out of 21,919 news items published in 20 media outlets, only 76 had bylines of female journalists. This is only about 0.30 per cent of the total news published by those media.
The report aimed to measure the level of gender sensitivity and determine how much and what kind of news content of women and people with different sexual orientations are published in the Nepali media.
The report assessed a total of 23,515 media contents published by a total of 20 media outlets.
Out of the total number of media materials published in those media over three periods of two months, only 388 or 1.67 per cent news stories are about women and people belonging to different sexual orientations.
Around 386 are women's issues and only two about sexual minorities. This reaffirms the fact that Nepali media give less priority to issues of women and people with different sexual orientation.
A version of this article appears in the print on July 19, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
