Missing Half the Story: Journalism as if Gender Matters

01 August 2010

Edited by Kalpana Sharma

Zubaan Books

304 pages, Rs 395

Is there a gender angle to a business story? Is gender in politics only about how many women get elected to Parliament? Is osteoporosis a women’s disease? Why do more women die in natural disasters? These are not the questions journalists usually ask when they set out to do their jobs as reporters, sub-editors, photographers or editors. Yet, by not asking, are they perhaps missing out on half the story?

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