Non e' solo questione di numeri, e' uno sbilanciamento che sottolinea come, nonostante gli sbandieramenti di piccole conquiste, siamo ancora lontani dal raggiungimento della meta. Sono 15 anni che il Global Media Monitor Project (GMMP), una ricerca sulla percentuale di giornaliste di inchiesta nel mondo, ci da gli stessi risultati: una esigua minoranza di donne si occupa delle hard news, ossia notizie di politica ed economia. Questi campi sono quasi completamente dominio dei giornalisti, le colleghe si occupano maggiormente di arte, cultura, attualita' e sport (escluso il cacio ovviamente). Questi sono i dati emersi dal GMMP, un quadro scevro da ogni possibile altra interpretazione se non il fatto acclamato che sottolinea una forte discriminazione di genere ponendo in evidenza come le news e le opinioni piu' "significative", in termini soprattutto di ascolto, sono quasi a completo appannaggio dei giornalisti, uomini.
Lasciatemi esprimere un giudizio sincero verso i colleghi uomini: alcuni di loro sembrano persone brillanti finche' non aprono bocca e parlano. Poche hanno l' opportunita' di trattare le notizie di politica ed economia, ma d'altro canto le giornaliste che si occupano di attualita' fanno emergere realta' rilevanti che dovrebbero essere trattate nei discorsi dei politici e degli economisti. Mi riferisco alle professioniste dei media che intervistano i terremotati, entrano nelle fabbriche dando voce agli scioperanti, e documentano la vita di chi tutti i giorni lotta contro un quotidiano faticoso. Bisognerebbe valorizzare di piu' questi report e soprattutto far si che le giornaliste esperte in politica ed economia abbiano gli stessi spazi dei colleghi. Infondo molte possiedono talento, grinta ed attributi, sfortunatamente solo metaforici.
Qui non si tratta solamente di pari opportunita', qui si sta parlando di dare lustro al mestiere. Guardando alla grammatica italiana, qualcuno obietterà: il mestiere e' nome comune di cosa maschile, io rispondo si e' vero ma la notizia e' un nome comune di cosa femminile. Sfortunatamente anche la discriminazione e è donna ed e' la regina di cio' che chiamiamo moderna societa'.
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t's not only an imbalance situation, despite some achievements were obtained by women, it is a matter of fact: sex equality is still far from being reality. For 15 year the Global Media Monitoring Project ( GMMP), an academic organisation that conduct every a yearly research, has underlined the usual short percentage of women journalists involved in the field of investigative journalism. According to the research only a very few women have the opportunity to write or talk about hard news, or rather news regarding political and economical issues: the ones able to get a strong engagement from audience. GMMP shows how men journalists "dominate" those sectors, while the vast majority of women journalists cover soft news, such as entertainment, art, cultural, current affair and sport event (not football of course, football is still a men topic). This is the outcome highlighted from the research that monitored this matter around the world. There is only one explanation which can be summed up what I reported to you with one single world: gender discrimination. As a journalist, and woman, let me say something regards this matter: some of my men colleagues seem bright people until they open their mouths to speak up. If it is true that a narrow minority can investigate hard news, a substantial part of women journalists draw the attention of audience to significant aspects of what happen around us. They works on important aspect of current affair like: interviewing earthquake victims, striking people in factories and reporting every day life of people who are struggling to survive in the society. I believe that the value of their work should be increase and politic and economic field needs to take into serious consideration this kind of news. Furthermore, let destroy this stupid discrimination and, above all, let women have the same right of men to investigate hard news. In the rear, some women are much more capable to do that, they get talent and punch attitude, unfortunately they do not have the men physical "attributes" which are indispensable for getting the status of hard news journalist, at least in a very large part of the world and of course in Italy. Beyond the sex equality, my straight point is: with more talent women an less incapable men in the field of investigative journalism, the quality of the job can be much more improve. Looking at the Italian grammar, some italian could object: job is masculine, I replay: yes but news is feminine. Unfortunately, according to italian vocabulary, discrimination is also feminine, and it is the queen of what we call the modern society.
t's not only an imbalance situation, despite some achievements were obtained by women, it is a matter of fact: sex equality is still far from being reality. For 15 year the Global Media Monitoring Project ( GMMP), an academic organisation that conduct every a yearly research, has underlined the usual short percentage of women journalists involved in the field of investigative journalism. According to the research only a very few women have the opportunity to write or talk about hard news, or rather news regarding political and economical issues: the ones able to get a strong engagement from audience. GMMP shows how men journalists "dominate" those sectors, while the vast majority of women journalists cover soft news, such as entertainment, art, cultural, current affair and sport event (not football of course, football is still a men topic). This is the outcome highlighted from the research that monitored this matter around the world. There is only one explanation which can be summed up what I reported to you with one single world: gender discrimination. As a journalist, and woman, let me say something regards this matter: some of my men colleagues seem bright people until they open their mouths to speak up. If it is true that a narrow minority can investigate hard news, a substantial part of women journalists draw the attention of audience to significant aspects of what happen around us. They works on important aspect of current affair like: interviewing earthquake victims, striking people in factories and reporting every day life of people who are struggling to survive in the society. I believe that the value of their work should be increase and politic and economic field needs to take into serious consideration this kind of news. Furthermore, let destroy this stupid discrimination and, above all, let women have the same right of men to investigate hard news. In the rear, some women are much more capable to do that, they get talent and punch attitude, unfortunately they do not have the men physical "attributes" which are indispensable for getting the status of hard news journalist, at least in a very large part of the world and of course in Italy. Beyond the sex equality, my straight point is: with more talent women an less incapable men in the field of investigative journalism, the quality of the job can be much more improve. Looking at the Italian grammar, some italian could object: job is masculine, I replay: yes but news is feminine. Unfortunately, according to italian vocabulary, discrimination is also feminine, and it is the queen of what we call the modern society. 
