A Microphone in One Hand and A Baby in The Other: The Struggle and Breakthrough of A Journalist As A Mother
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Ha, Yuan-I
Abstract
That TVBS, the first satellite television station in Taiwan, began broadcasting in 1993 opens a 24- hour highly competitive era in Taiwan''s TV news industry. In the process of news production, reporters are persuaded to agree with that nothing has higher priority than news, and their job discipline is to pursue the newest information and be the first one to get it; the working conditions of the press are of little importance. A journalist''s working process was to unceasingly squeeze his own time and space in exchange for the control of news. Under time constraint, a female as the roles of both a journalist and a mother can hardly avoid struggling between her news work and child care; Society''s two different role anticipations on a female also put her in a demanding predicament where she will be easily blamed from both sides of her company and home.
With the concern over gender equality, this in-depth reporting interviews 14 female journalists who had pregnancy experiences within 7 years, depicts their working and family life patterns, emphasize the structural restrictions of the TV news industry facing them, analyze their role conflicts and coping strategies, and last but not least, examine women''s situation in TV media ever since the Gender Equality in Employment Act was put into practice in Taiwan 10 years ago. The goals of this report are to publicize the experiences of female journalists, to transform their learned role transitions into assistance to empowerment through perception and introspection, and to offer suggestions about the survival strategies for female journalists as mothers as well as about the constructing a media working environment and a society with equal gender rights.
Subjects
Motherhood
TV journalist
Shift work
Role conflict
Gender Equality in Employment Act
SDGs
Type
thesis
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