Abstract

GALLETERO-CAMPOS, Belén; RUIZ, María José Ufarte; LOPEZ-CEPEDA, Ana María  and  MARTINEZ-PEREZ, Elena. Analysis of gender asymmetries in the professional group of journalists in Castilla-La Mancha. OBS* [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.3, pp.01-19. ISSN 1646-5954.  https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS13320191444.

Professional profiles, especially those related to journalism, cannot be understood as a universal and abstract issue, since they are built on contextual factors such as workspaces, the typology of companies and the skills required. This study analyses gender asymmetries in the working conditions of journalism professionals in Castilla-La Mancha, an autonomous community characterised by its rural socio-demographic identity and its media structure made up of micro-media. A quantitative methodology is applied, whose collection instrument has been the survey, and a subsequent descriptive statistical analysis of categorical variables. The questionnaire, which has been based on some reference research on the subject in the last fifteen years, has been answered by a representative sample of 179 journalists from the region - 87 men and 92 women - belonging to 85 local media, distributed in the sectors of printed press, radio, television and digital native media. The results show that inequalities persist in some endemic issues such as conciliation difficulties, the wage gap or the glass ceiling, but also in other less evident aspects such as the degree of satisfaction with the profession, job expectations and even the perception of influences and pressures on professional practice.

Keywords : Gender perspective; Wave gap; Glass ceiling; Communication structure; Castilla-La Mancha.

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