Women (and men) in newsrooms

The publication is the first comprehensive look in the Czech environment at a number of factors that influence the situation of women journalists and thus contribute to gender discrimination in the profession. On the basis of a detailed research and critical reflection of foreign and domestic literature, it challenges the conventional wisdom that increasing the number of women in the journalistic profession and improving their position in newsrooms (for example, in terms of holding higher hierarchical positions) will in itself contribute to changing the representation of women (and men) in the media or transform the nature of the profession itself, especially in favour of women. It presents other structural and organizational influences that may be more significant than gender in the direction and shape of the profession, and summarizes the results of the author's own research, in which she focused on which factors are perceived by women and men journalists in the Czech Republic as crucial in their profession.