Marginalisation of Women in Media with Special Reference to India

Abstract

The aim of this study is to carry out a literature review on women work ing in media in order to know the state of marginalisation, and to understand whether and to what extent the studies conducted so far have addressed these issues: nature of marginalisation in specific media. What are the hurdles it cre ated in developing carrier.The article relies on a literature review about women in media. For this purpose, a literature search on Scopus, Google scholar, Pub med and Research gate has been carried out, using a set of selected keywords. Selected papers have been analysed and classified in an attempt to identify main topics, and results obtained from previous studies. This study contributes to the expansion of literature on women in media, and explored perspective towards marginalisation of women. The study literature review puts in evidence that this is the issue, which gives us the possibility to identify new trends and future directions for research. The results highlight the nature of marginalisa tion of women in media and role of media in empowerment of women. Study highlights many young girls are taking education in mass media but entering into field as journalist marginalised them due to patriarchy.