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Attitude Of Caritas Female Mass Communication Students Towards Journalism As A Career
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1.4 Research Questions
 In what ways does the hazard of journalism as a career scare women away from the profession?
 Why does the fragile nature of women make them drop their profession for less hazardrous jobs after their training?
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What are the possible solutions to the female aparthy to the journalism
profession in Nigeria vis a vis their counterparts in other countries?
1.5 Research Hypothesis
1. H1: Hazard of journalism as a career does not scare women away from the profession.
2. H1: Fragile nature of women do make them drop their profession for less hazardrous jobs after their training.
1.6 Scope of the Study
As
this study focuses attention primarily on the attitude of female Mass
Communication students towards journalism as a career, it attempts an
over view of a good number of professionals who have already made
similar studies of women images in the media and their attitude towards
journalism.
In this study, the researcher raised a number of
assumptions, she assume that the way the image of women are being
potrayed in the society as journalists have created an imbalance in the
ratio of working male journalists to the female counterparts.
In
essence, the researcher has deemed it fit to concentrate mere on Caritas
female journalists and the issues affecting them as working
journalists.
1.7 Significance of the study
This study will
be of immense benefits to the female journalists because a lot of
people are being baffled over the issue why women do not take up
journalism as a career after studies. It has really agitated the minds
of some professionals and has equally created a lot of controversy. The
researcher, therefore has deemed it fit to find out the reason for such
negative attitude of females towards journalism.
Some authors and
researchers lives on assumptions mainly because of the way the images of
Women are being potrayed in the society as journalists. This study has
therefore provided an avenue for an in-dept study on the controversial
issue of knowing the militants against the idea of women going into
journalism as a career, how do these women see the practice of
journalism, do they go into the study with the intention of practicing
journalism or taking up just as a career.
This study will serve as
resource materials for programmes design and implementation in the
effort concerning women in development and to student of women studies
Mass Communication and Journalism. It will be useful reading and
reference materials for others. 9
1.8 Operational Definitions of Significant Terms
In
this research work, the terms used were operationally defined, the
meanings reflect how the researcher wants the term to be understood in
the context of this work.
1. Study: It is an act of considering or
examining some thing in detail. It can also be said to be a piece of
research that examines a subject or question in detail.
2. Attitude: This is a way of feeling or your – opinion about something or somebody.
3. Female: It is a situation of being a women or girl.
4. Mass: A large Number of people in a community, society and nation.
5.
Communication: Method of sending information to a large number of
people, especially through Television, Radio, Computers, Newspaper,
Magazine Etc.
6. Students: These are group of people who are studying at a university or colleges.
7. Towards: This is in relation to something or somebody or in the direction of something.
8.
Journalism: It is a new effort in reporting in which professional
communicators use social research method together, interprete and
vividly
present information to the target audience. Journalists is therefore, the science of reporting.
9. Career: It is the job or series of jobs that you do during your working life, especially if you continue to get more money.
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