Women media students concerned about unemployment after graduation

On the occasion of the graduation yesterday of 227 students from the First and Second Branches of the School of Information at Lebanese University (LU), As Safir daily newspaper interviewed a number of women graduates who voiced concern over the uncertainty of the post-graduation worklife. One student, Nour, expressed her fear of not finding jobs amidst the stressful economic conditions experienced by most of the local establishments in the media. Malak, on the other hand, had her different views of the sector. “It is a broad and competent industry with great capacity for accommodation,” she said, but the problem, she added, is in the multiple partisan and confessional considerations underpinning the country and the employment prospects and requisites. To work for any media channel, Malak lamented, one has to observe its line of thought, and therefore, cannot be fully independent or objective in what she or he delivers. She also identified a discriminatory attitude towards women graduate who choose to wear the hijab (veil), as they are instantly stigmatized and considered unfit for employment. Another student, Pamela Abu Hanna, was critical of the poor record of the Press and Editors Syndicates in protecting the journalists and the industry. 

(As Safir, October 11, 2016)