Discrimination of Media Report against Women

Due to the ‘traditional practice’ for not publishing the image of women, an Orthodox Jewish newspaper, Di Tzeitung has removed the presence of the US secretary of the state, Hilary Clinton and the counterterrorism director, Audrey Tomason in a historical image which also known as “The Situation Room” in their media report.  

Such report could be said as cultural conflict for the Jew’ readers as they acknowledged the standard for women in different “terms” based on their religious instructions (Rich 2011), as it’s been the convention for the newspaper to avoid publishing women in the media report for some time. In my perspective, I think it is really an insulting matter as I don’t think the abilities of women should be ignore or being underestimated especially in the world today.

Source from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/10/jewish-paper-apologises-hillary-clinton

As Wiesner-Hank(2011, p.357) agreed with Iriye & Saunier’s (2009) statement, the presences of women in politics are still evolving, which occurred to be the term of ‘Transnational History’ in order to “move between and across different polities and society”. In such circumstance, there must be reasons why it takes long time for women to switch their roles either to involve in the politics field today, or occur in the business field as the dominant females. According to Ford (2010, p.5), as women are more emotional and hold different comportments toward their appropriate roles, even the capabilities for women to master in politics might also strong enough, however, their attitudes considered as distractions that might lead women to made some irrational decisions.

Somehow, according to Rich (2011), the standards of women are much higher than the Western civilization through to 20^th century. For instance, although Judaism women are discouraged to engage in advanced studies, the rights of Judaism women were more powerful than expected as they can choose their life partner and have their own properties. Even so, based on the cultural practices over the years, the primary responsibility for Judaism women was mainly wife, mother or keeper of the household (Rich 2011). In another word, instead of indicating the standard of women is low, the cultural of Judaism prefers to acknowledge these as the nature roles of women.

As indicated in the article, the Jewish newspaper was then apologized due to the cultural offensive. Even the cultural of Judaism think that the publishing of women in the newspaper is immodest, but such cases happened for those who are practicing matriarchal society, they’ll think it might be another religious conflict in another point of view. 

References

1. Ford, L.E. 2010, ‘Women and Politics: The Pursuit of Equality’, Wadsworth Publishing Company, [online], Available at: <http://books.google.com.my/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Ni0inG4e0AoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=equality+of+the+sexes+politics&ots=PEkhrKtMtt&sig=iEuUFGHntccRHYJXD_j2iA4KRdY#v=onepage&q=equality%20of%20the%20sexes%20politics&f=false>, [Accessed on 8^th November 2011].

2. Iriye, A. & Saunier, P.Y. 2009, ‘The Palgrave dictionary of transnational history: from the mid-19^th century to the present day’, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, [online], Available at: <http://www.cemh.umn.edu/news/documents/Wiesner-CrossingBorders.pdf>, [Accessed on 8^th November 2011].

3. Rich, T. R. 2011, ‘The Role of Women’, Judaism 101, [online], Available at: <http://www.jewfaq.org/women.htm>, [Accessed on 8^th November 2011].

4. Wiesner-Hanks, M.E 2011, ‘Crossing borders in transnational gender history’, Journal of Global History, vol.6, pp. 357 – 379, London School of Economics and Political Science, [online], Available at: <http://www.cemh.umn.edu/news/documents/Wiesner-CrossingBorders.pdf>, [Accessed on 8^th November 2011].