Gender & Women Studies Program

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As has been the case in Pakistan, in Nepal too in spite of various national and international commitment , no significant  policy change for programme has taken place in increasing women's participation in the media, or in bringing about  change in the stereotypical role of women. Women have not gained parity with men in participation and decision-making  with the management still being entirely male-dominated and patriarchal. The gender division of labor is highly  pronounced in production, creative and technical departments. The media has mostly disproportionate representation of women in glamour,  entertainment, crime and fashion pages. It is seen that there is a lack of truly gender-sensitive approach and analysis of womens  issues by both men and women in media which allowed exploitative derogatory images of women in media. in Urdu......... مختلف قومی اور بین الاقوامی عزم کے باوجود بھی نیپال میں، پا...

Gender Discrimination: Mass media became one of the main sources of popular culture in today's society. Media however, not only entertains and offers news to people, but also transfers the stereotypes, beliefs and values of the society to reproduce the existing order of social life. Al-tho users, in his theory of ideological state apparatuses say that, schools, families, religions play the role of the the ideological state apparatuses. These institutions invisibly transfer and instruct the dominant ideology of the society into the minds of people in order to be able to control people. In today's world, media has turned out be yet another althusserian ideological apparatus that control the mind of masses. It seems like media creates the unique pieces of art , Movies , Magazines, Music, TV shows and others.......

To Educate, Entertain and Inform . In most places throughout the world, the media have become crucial to the working of the economic, political, social and cultural sphere, at the global, national and local levels, as well as for everyday life in the private sphere, where they are  important sources of both information and entertainment.

Exploitation of women 's events in the world are going brhty . , And the Western World in the media in the background keeping the spare sry critical of Islamic society are not Nasha . Misconceptions about Islam in the community development 're climbing . especially women's shame of the world of Islam is bigotry . context because Islam fourteen hundred years ago today, women's rights were given . issues a woman can only understand the foot was taken . , and our objective of this article is only about Islam is to remove narrowly . , and society tell . , the media is beating the drums of the Western society . solely on the basis of lies . , which the purpose of repression of zryayaurt feminism is bad . , and not a few . though clearly says in the " Quran " . Islam does not differentiate between men and women in BC . ' Surah Baqarah Services Limited . Verse 288 .

Definition of Mass Communication:                                       Mass Communication refers to the process by which a complex organization with the aid of one of two machines produce and transmit public message are targeted large , heterogeneous and Scattered audiences (Dminick, J. R. 1993). Definition of Mass Media:                                     Amedium is the channel through which a message travels from the sources to the receiver ("medium " is singular , "media " is plural ). Mass Media uses theses channels to carry the message our definition of mass media will include not only the mechanical devices that transmit...

Social Understandings of Health Asocial perspective of health is one that concentrate on improving health an well-being of the population and talks about the factors ,which influence ,and well-being. This view also draws on key social determinants that influence broadsides of health and illness with a population. The World Health Organization has offered a definition of health that goes beyond the biomedical and argues that health is: A state of complete social , psychological and physical well -being and not merely the absence of disease ; Implicit within this definition os the notion that health is not purely a physical phenomenon, but is influenced by soc-cultural, economic and psychological factors. There are whole range of alternative understandings of health and illness that very broadly the understanding of health.Some have developed as indigenous systems over centuries acupuncture, whilst others have emerged more recently, partly in response to criticisms of the biomedical ap...