News media produced by, for and about women have long been crucial mechanisms by which women can define the alternative visions of womanhood and cultivate new socio-political landscapes. Alternative news media advocated versions of women’s social, political and cultural roles that were quite different from those proposed by or imposed by mainstream media. Such media have enabled women to exchange and share news unlikely to find a home in mainstream media institutions and to develop journalistic and media skills. This book describes the entry of women into journalism, their struggles to gain equality and their determined efforts to ensure that their voice too was heard. Women journalists all over he world more or less face the same kind of problem initially –the resistance to their entry by their male colleagues. The chapters indicate the status of women journalists today and how they attained it. This book will be useful for students, teachers and researchers in journalisms and all other dimensions of the mass media and mass communications.
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