WOMEN IN IRAN MEDIA

WOMEN IN IRAN MEDIA

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August 10, 2022

Contrary to western media’s narratives about women rights in Iran, women participation in almost all walks of life from airport services to sales and from army commandos to tourist guides is picking up. But this presence is more felt in the field of media. “The number of female journalists has increased during the last five years by almost 200 per cent,” Samaneh Nazerian, who heads the international department of Mehr News agency, one of the largest wire services in Iran, told IslamOnline.net in English. A recent visit of the correspondent of Islamonline.net to Tehran TimesKehan InternationalMehr and other media outlets showed women journalists, mostly young girls, outnumbered their male colleagues in the newsrooms, city desks, monitoring sections, libraries and other sections.