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Women Journalists in India’s Rural Areas: Social and Economic Conditions

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In the recent years, the growth of women journalists in India has been at a considerable rate. This growth includes women journalists from both urban and rural areas. However, involvement of women journalists belonging to rural areas as compared to the women journalists in urban areas is not that much noticeable in mainstream news media. But this is also a fact that the number of women journalists in rural areas has been substantially improved. Hence, the study of rural women journalists becomes significant to be explored. In this paper, we focus on the study and analysis of the social and economic conditions of female journalists in news media in India’s rural areas.

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    Prashant M. Pawar

  2. Precision Engineering Center, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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    Babruvahan P. Ronge

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Afsar, M., Kumari, S. (2021). Women Journalists in India’s Rural Areas: Social and Economic Conditions. In: Pawar, P.M., Balasubramaniam, R., Ronge, B.P., Salunkhe, S.B., Vibhute, A.S., Melinamath, B. (eds) Techno-Societal 2020. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69925-3_105

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