{"id":35116,"date":"2021-08-12T22:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/12\/afghanistan-female-journalists-rukhshana-media-sexism-taliba"},"modified":"2021-08-12T22:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:25:42","slug":"a-source-of-hope-afghanistans-female-journalists-challenging-sexism-and-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35116","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A source of hope\u2019: Afghanistan\u2019s female journalists challenging sexism and the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zahra Joya started Rukhshana Media so Afghan women could tell their stories in their own words. Now she is battling to keep it going as long as she can<\/p>\n<p>Despite years of development, investment and progress in the Afghan media industry, 28-year-old Zahra Joya often found she was the only woman in a newsroom. \u201cIt was a lonely space, dominated by men who made the decisions about which stories were important, and which were not,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Joya, who is from the persecuted Hazara community, felt she faced discrimination because of her ethnicity and sex. \u201cThere were so few women journalists in Kabul,\u201d she says. \u201cThere would hardly be women reporters covering political events or press conferences even though these stories affect us greatly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/12\/afghanistan-female-journalists-rukhshana-media-sexism-taliba\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zahra Joya started Rukhshana Media so Afghan women could tell their stories in their own words. Now she is battling to keep it going as long as she canDespite years of development, investment and progress in the Afghan media industry, 28-year-old Zahra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,646,669,238,61,44,84,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-gender","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35117,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116\/revisions\/35117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}