Philippine Daily Inquirer (March19-23 issues)

                

                Nowadays, Journalism profession is offered to both male and female. Unlike before, this career is mostly dominated by men since women were viewed as caretakers of the family and not as professionals. Even during the ancient times, the rights of women are often discriminated for it is believed that women are just there to produce children. And they are even proud whenever they produce a baby boy and get disappointed when it is a girl.

                With the advancement of our society, the outlook for women changed and they are no longer just “baby makers.” Their skills are not only limited to the four corners of their home for they are now given the rights to do what men does. And sometimes, more rights were given to females and we have this thinking that men should always prioritize and respect women.

                On the March 19 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), most of the byliners were women. The top story entitled ‘Senate hits peace panel’ was written by Leila Salaverria. And for that day’s issue, 4 other female writers dominated the page. Out of the 7 by liners, only 2 were male writers whose articles focused on the Disaster Risk Reduction frameworks and the recent Mamasapano tragedy.

                Meanwhile, on the following day, the numbers of female and male writers were both 3.  One story about the British boy band 1 Direction was included in the front page which was written by Tina Santos. All the other stories mostly focused on the political issues like the BBL and the Mamasapano clash.

                For 3 consecutive days, the banner stories for the Philippine Daily Inquirer were written by a male writer named Nikko Dizon. Most of the stories written by Dizon concerns the health of President Benigno Aquino III (PNoy) saying that he collapsed on around midnight, March20, without him knowing. Also, one of the stories written by Dizon focused on the release of text messages between PNoy and Purisima to help the investigation of the Fallen 44 case.

                Only one female made it to the front page, Nina Cabeja, writing about the rallies made by office workers behind Makati Mayor Jujun Binay.

                The british boy band 1 Direction made it again in the front page and this time, the writers were a male and a female. On the March 22 issue of PDI, 4 writers were female and only 2 writers for the front page were male. And among these females, Senator Loren Legarda wrote an article about nature of disaster risks.  The 3 other females wrote about the social networking sites such as the joining of Inquirer.net to facebook. And the other is about Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago ruling Twitter and Facebook with millions of her followers.

                For March 23 issue, men dominated the page having a total of 4 over 6. Two of these articles were written by Nikko Dizon focusing again on PNoy. Meanwhile, Maricar Cinco wrote an article about a new found specie of tarantulas.

               

Out of the twenty-one writers during the five-day issue of PDI, eleven were female writers and the rest are male. Most of the topics written by men focused on government meanwhile, the females were stretched up to writing news-features. Nevertheless, both men and women wrote articles about the Senate which is the highest beat in the paper industry.