Gender Sensitivity in Nepali Media
Aimed at measuring the level of gender sensitivity and determining how much and what kind of news content about women and people with different sexual orientations are published in Nepali media, this study assessed a total of 23,515 media contents published by a total of 20 media outlets. Out of the total number of media materials published in those media over the period of two months, only 388 or 1.67 percent news stories are about women and people belonging to different sexual orientations. Of those 388 about women and people with different sexual orientations, 386 are on women’s issues and only two about sexual minorities. This reaffirms the fact that Nepali media give less priority to issues of women and people with different sexual orientations. Out of 21,919 news items published in 20 media outlets, only 76 had bylines of female journalists. This is only about 0.30 percent of the total news published by those media.
