Abstract

SOUSA, Nayara Nascimento de  and  QUESADA TAVARES, Camilla. Exploring Evidence of Racial Asymmetries in the Feminization of Brazilian Journalism. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2023, vol.31, n.2, pp.112-138.  Epub Nov 12, 2023. ISSN 0121-3261.  https://doi.org/10.14482/indes.31.02.410.639.

The objective of the article is to relate intersectional aspects of race in the phenomenon of the feminization of journalism, as well as to contribute to the production of data on female profiles in Brazilian journalism. The literature points out that women are the majority in journalism, therefore, we propose to advance the discussions to observe their profile and the racial asymmetries in counterpoint to homogenization. The methodology used for the construction of this work is quantitative, with the survey as a method. The research corpus is made up of 217 women who work, or have worked, in journalism in Brazil, 135 self-declared as white, 75 as black, 3 as indigenous, and 2 as "yellow" (meaning East Asians) - 2 informants chose not to identify their color/race. From the descriptive analysis, we verified that the profile of the respondents corroborates research on professionals in Brazilian journalism: cisgender women, white, and with a high level of education. The results indicate that the self-declared black female respondents have the lowest level of education, which may impact their position in the job market. Regarding work situations, most of the women in the survey work outside the media, mainly in consulting firms. Considering the racial groups, white women are distributed in all the delimited categories (media, outside the media, teaching, etc.), while black women are the ones who most accumulate different work spaces, and the ones who are currently outside journalism. The intersectional data points to possible disadvantages of black women compared to white women in journalism in Brazil.

Keywords : women; Brazilian journalism; gender; racial intersectionality; survey.

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