Influential women such as Human rights and media Lawyer Beatrice Mutetwa and chairperson of the Women Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCOZ) Virginia Muwanigwa blasted the media for not honouring the women's rights in the media while addressing journalists at the Quill Club recently.
Beatrice said that media has to give women a voice and it should work hand in glove with women human rights defenders to help stand for the rights of the women and create security for women.
Virginia said that they want to be seen as equal members of the community who need the same coverage of media that other men,members of the community are getting.
She said that the media has objective coverage of women and for instance if the Prime Minister would claim that women are clogging drainage system with the sand they use when they clean pots,the media would ask them to comment about that issue and not to comment the more important issues like the new constitutional draft.
Beatrice also said the media has to empower women and not undermine the women like what they do when they are covering only women for loitering and prostitution but they do not also say who they are loitering for who happen to be men.
They also said that they are disapointed in the media and they are hoping that the media will change towards the benefit of the women.
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