Abstract

 
 Being the fourth pillar of society, media has the responsibility to highlight all the existing issues of society. Women are an integral part of our society and their ratio is continuously increasing in our population. Despite having an equal population ratio, they are facing numerous difficulties in daily routine and those issues are not being highlighted seriously in our media. Due to this, the women in our society suffers a lot. This study aims to find out and compare the coverage by the media to the issues of the women by the National and Regional Newspapers in Sindh and the international perspective related to coverage of women issues. For data collection purpose, three leading newspapers have been selected and previous international researches have been studied to get a clear global perspective. The selected Newspapers includes two national newspapers i.e. Daily Dawn and Daily Jang and one newspaper of regional level that is Daily Kawish. The nature of study is quantitative. For analyzing and collecting data, content analysis and comparative methods have been selected. In this regard the time period of one year has been chosen to collect the data which is from July 2015-June 2016. The most significant finding of this study is that regional newspaper is leading over national newspapers in terms of coverage and space of selected women issues.
 
 
 
 
Highlights
Women contributes half of the population in Pakistan
The news coverage of the national newspapers with respect to selected categories of women issues has been compared with the regional newspapers
This study under the title “Print Media Coverage of Women Issues; National and Regional Newspapers of Sindh and the International Perspective” has been conducted to investigate how much news coverage is been given to women issues and space given to those issues by our national and regional newspapers
Summary
As per the 2017 census, women were forty-nine percent of total national population (Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, GOP 2017) and surprisingly a prominent number of them are living their lives below the line of poverty (Saeed, 2013). They exist in almost equal numbers of men in our society. Due to the absence of basic knowledge about human & women rights and the tribal structure women are being treated as property of male members in remote areas of our country These days, workplace harassment and domestic violence is rapidly increasing. Women are being sexually abused, raped and face violence at domestic level and work/public place harassment as quoted by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP annual report 2018)
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