Where are the women candidates during elections? A Fiji media case study

This article examines the visibility of female election candidates, and females in general, in The Fiji Times and Fiji Sun during the 2006 general election. After analysing the data collected quantitatively, it can be concluded that female election candidates and females in general were virtually in...

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Autor principal:	Shazia Usman
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2013
Materias:	Democracy Elections Fiji coups Gender Governance Media representation Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7c1db0629fc24c0b822ee9d753378f4b2021-12-02T13:03:20ZWhere are the women candidates during elections? A Fiji media case study10.24135/pjr.v19i1.2431023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/7c1db0629fc24c0b822ee9d753378f4b2013-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/243https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035This article examines the visibility of female election candidates, and females in general, in The Fiji Times and Fiji Sun during the 2006 general election. After analysing the data collected quantitatively, it can be concluded that female election candidates and females in general were virtually invisible in both the newspapers during the selected time period. The few articles published on or quoting women were mostly clichéd, lacked critical analysis and stereotyped them. An unexpected but equally important finding of the research sheds some light on the why of female election candidates’ invisibility in the dailies during election. The data shows the extensive prominence Fiji’s print media gave to race and coup-related issues as elections drew near, crowding out reportage of other major issues. Because of the fixation on race, the media overlooked many important issues, such as the fact that in all elections since independence, women have only managed to secure fewer than 12 percent of parliamentary seats, even though they make-up nearly half of the total population of the country. Such debates are rarely raised in the media.Shazia UsmanAsia Pacific NetworkarticleDemocracyElectionsFiji coupsGenderGovernanceMedia representationCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 19, Iss 1 (2013)
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description	This article examines the visibility of female election candidates, and females in general, in The Fiji Times and Fiji Sun during the 2006 general election. After analysing the data collected quantitatively, it can be concluded that female election candidates and females in general were virtually invisible in both the newspapers during the selected time period. The few articles published on or quoting women were mostly clichéd, lacked critical analysis and stereotyped them. An unexpected but equally important finding of the research sheds some light on the why of female election candidates’ invisibility in the dailies during election. The data shows the extensive prominence Fiji’s print media gave to race and coup-related issues as elections drew near, crowding out reportage of other major issues. Because of the fixation on race, the media overlooked many important issues, such as the fact that in all elections since independence, women have only managed to secure fewer than 12 percent of parliamentary seats, even though they make-up nearly half of the total population of the country. Such debates are rarely raised in the media.
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Where are the women candidates during elections? A Fiji media case study

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