Document Type : Original Article
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journalist
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Rasouli Associate Professor, Faculty of Communication Sciences and Media Studies, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Knowledge, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University
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Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/jcsc.2025.2072239.2860
Abstract
The aim was to identify the relationship between the representation of women's news and the gender gap rating in the most widely circulated newspapers in the Middle East and it is based on the hypothesis that there is a significant relationship between the publication of developmental news and the gender gap rating.
Women's news was divided into developmental, candy ,Newsworthy.Hamshahri from Iran with a gender gap ranking of 143 as a Shiite base with a circulation of 80,000, Al-Ittihad from the UAE with a ranking of 68 as a leading country in reducing the gender gap with a circulation of 109,000, Hurriyet from Turkey with a ranking of 124 as a European-Asian country with a circulation of 185,000; Okaz with a circulation of 250,000 from Saudi Arabia with a ranking of 127 as a Sunni base, from January 1, 2022 to January 1, 2023, with the help of a questionnaire whose variables and items were extracted and coded from the theories of news gatekeeping, Agenda-Setting, developmental media, feminism and gender gap, with composing week sampling from Hamshahri 68, Hurriyet 144, Okaz 53, Al-Ittihad 50 and 315 questionnaires were obtained.
Using SPSS, the relative frequency of variables was identified with chi-square, the significant difference of each variable relative to each other with pearson, the relationship of variables with the gender gap was identified. positive and significant relationship was found between news representation, a negative and significant relationship between developmental news, and no relationship between Newsworthy and candynews with the gender gap.
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