Rwanda Media High Council intends to carry out a media gender audit as one of the line other projects that will re-orient gender mainstreaming in the country.
This has been announced by Patrice Murama the executive secretary of Rwanda Media High Media Council(MHC) shortly before signing a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) with Gender Monitoring Office to join efforts in gender mainstreaming.
“It has been discovered that despite all efforts which has been done to sensitize public on gender issues, gender equality is largely inadequately understood,” Murama said while pointing out that media alone seems to have emancipated only men in journalism than women yet it is fourth pillar of government that would play a bigger role in educating the public about gender issues.
Murama gave an example of four elections monitoring MHC has carried out discovering that very few women were covered by different media houses yet bigger percentage of women is represented in the parliament.
He also went ahead to say that he has observed that all media houses are headed by men who probably are simply not gender sensitive hence resulting to little and sided coverage rendered to women.
Chief Gender Monitor Oda Gasinzigwa said that all institutions need to stand up for gender mainstreaming admitting that they have not done enough.
In one day meeting which also attracted different public and private media houses conclude that there is still a challenge based on culture that have brought almost immovable perception that men are superiors and women must remain inferior despite their emerging abilities to challenge men.
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