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Issue 2: Women journalists have no gender-based support or voice
within the media sector.
Awareness of gender-based discrimination within the media sector was low among
participants in initial discussion. This may be partly due to the lack of avenues in which
gender issues can be discussed or solutions sought. Without such avenues, views are
inevitably based on personal experience or rumours.
Women journalists have no access to complaints mechanisms that review gender-based
issues inside media companies. When women face what they believe is gender-based
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