KARACHI: The International Federation of Journalists has issued its report entitled “Asia-Pacific media through a gender lens”, which focuses on working conditions of women journalists living in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu, Malaysia, Nepal and Cambodia on the International Women’s Day.
The report about Pakistan was unveiled at the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) office at Karachi Press Club and has been compiled by the IFJ, with the collaboration of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), says a press release.
Speaking on the occasion, PFUJ secretary general Amin Yusuf termed the report a step towards empowering women and bringing improvement in the working conditions at media houses.
He said that efforts would be made to increase women’s representation in trade unions and to bring improvement at the work place for women. IFJ deputy director Jane Worthington said: “In many countries across the Asia-Pacific, there has been a progressive and positive growth in the number of women in newsrooms, working as freelancers and in the online space as bloggers, writers and people of influence. There are a lot of great achievements to celebrate in terms of women in the media,” she said.
