“You Feel Like You Don’t Have the Freedom to Do Your Work”: Exploring Fijian Women Journalists’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment

Hanuscha, Folker and Singh, Shailendra B. and Leonhardt, Birte and Panapasa, Geraldine (2024) “You Feel Like You Don’t Have the Freedom to Do Your Work”: Exploring Fijian Women Journalists’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment. JOURNALISM PRACTICE, 1 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1751-2786

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Abstract

The topic of violence against women in journalism has received
growing attention in scholarship, especially in terms of digital
forms of harassment. At the same time, many women journalists
continue to experience direct forms of harassment in the pursuit
of their work. Focusing on the Pacific Island nation of Fiji, this
study contributes to scholarship on sexual harassment in
journalism by examining the experiences of more than 40
journalists, employing both a standardized survey and in-depth
interviews. Our findings demonstrate how widespread sexual
harassment is, with colleagues and superiors, as well as politicians
and businesspeople the most frequent culprits. Women journalists
report a harrowing range of cases, and the results show that
inadequate safeguards contribute to sexual harassment’s wideranging
effect on their personal and professional lives.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sexual; harassment; Fiji; journalist; gender; discrimination
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education (SPACE)
Depositing User:	Nirma Narayan
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2025 03:41
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2025 03:41
URI:	https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14721

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