Abstract:
Along with the massive change of the digital society, the way of sending information to the public
has been changing. The communication channels have digitalized and people think that the mental
condition of people has changed. Theorists and academics tell that people have been modernized
and their thinking also. But if we look in the sector of Online Journalism in Bangladesh, we can
see that the thinking of society, family members of women has not been changed drastically.
Because the participation of women in online journalism is very low in comparison to men. At the
time of the survey and interview, I saw that society holds ancient thinking on women when it
comes to their participation in journalism. That’s why the participation of women is very low yet.
In the surveyed online portals in Bangladesh, we saw that the participation of women in online
journalism reporting is 24 percent, where the participation of men is 76 percent, which is less than
one fourth in comparison to a man. Their participation in the editing section is much lower. Only five
percent of women are working in the editing section where 95 percent is a man. When the question came
to the participation in managerial and gatekeeping positions in online journalism, the situation is
even worst. Because only 11 percent of women are holding this position and 89 percent of males holding
the position.
