Abstract:
This paper attempts to illustrate as to how news production processes are
discourses to women representation in decision making process in Sri Lankan Press.
Further, this paper also compiles the evidence on how gender sensitivity culture has
been mainstreamed in terms of the women representation in news production process.
This paper indicates as to whether the gender sensitivity awareness exists within the
organizational culture of the Sri Lankan Press.
The purpose of this paper is to exclusively provide an idea about the Sri
Lankan Press Media Industry in terms of gender and power relation in order to map out
some research ideas and to present the exiting operational context of Sri Lankan media
in relation to gender. Therefore, this paper examines specific case studies with the
selected press news rooms. This will also deal with the position of women in journalism
and newsroom space. On the bases of qualitative methodologies (Case study and
Personal interviews), the study explores three questions: How many female journalists
are participating in daily news producing process of the Sri Lankan Press? Whether
mere are observable differences in the way female journalists and male journalists work
in that Particular newsroom and Are the Sri Lankan Press news rooms are conventional
to a traditional and patriarchal approach of journalism? In the selected news room.
The results showed the participation of women journalist in decision making
and news production process are influenced by gender identity and further reveled that
the ownership of the particular intuition has less interest on enhancing gender stativity
culture. Further, the finding reveled that the female journalist are working differently in
the news production process in compared to male journalist due to several reasons.
The first section of the paper scrutinizes different diverse approaches in
understanding gender, while adopting media feminism as a core framework. The second
section of this paper attempts to examine the specific case studies dealing with the
position of women in news production decision making process and compiles some
evidence that female journalist work differently within the news room space and how
the gender imbalance affect on the contents of press segment Further, this section also
discuses the outcomes of the results of Intensive interview in order to note the position
of editors, journalist on women representation in news room. Finally, this paper notes
some ideas in order to enhance the research themes and policy implications
