Working Media Women : Profile, Work Environment and Job Satisfaction

With the proliferation of news channels in the country, the work force has correspondingly grown in the country. In India, Jeffrey (2000) estimated that there were 4700 journalists in early 1960\'s and around 13,000 in 1990\'s. In the year 1990\'s India had about 25,000 journalists on wages or retainers, which came up to one journalist for every 35,000 people. This excluded thousands of stringers and contributors. Although the work force is increasingly going up, very few studies have been conducted to examine the sociological issues involved in the career of media men or women. However, a few studies that are available in the country have focused on the media men or media women who are working in the print media. Unlike the earlier studies, the present study has attempted to study the sociological issues of media women who include print journalists, television anchors, script writers, and radio announcers.