Somali Women Journalists Organization (SWJO), in collaboration with IMS-FOJO on Sunday opened three days gender equality training for 15 journalists, 11 women and 4 men in Kismayo, the interim administrative capital of Jubbaland state.
The purpose of the training is to build the journalists’ understanding, awareness and knowledge on gender equality in terms of recruitment, salaries, promotions and access to capacity development opportunities.
The journalists attending the gender equality training were selected from the different media house: TV, radio and print media in the port city of Kismayo.
Idle Aden Mohamed, one of the training participants expresses hope that the trainees will learn important knowledge that will help address gender inequality in workplace
“This is a very important training for us. It is timely and significant training which shows that men and women in the media industry have equal rights and opportunities in workplace. We are grateful to SWJO that organized this training in partnership with IMS-FOJO and indeed it is one of the trainings that are needed highly” said Idle.
On her side, Maryan Mudan Hussein, a female journalist among the trainees said the training will be a step towards transformation of gender inequality in workplace.
“It is indeed a good training that gives confidence to female journalists and raises their awareness for equal rights. We expect to gain more skills that will help us understand the importance of equality in workplace”.
During the first day of the workshop, the participants were taken through important topics such as the responsibilities of female journalists in championing the gender equality in the workplace, identifying stereotypes against women appropriate responses and fair representation of women in the media among others.
The objective of that training is not to just support women journalists rise in positions of power and decision-making but teach them the value of women as journalists and how they should not be abused because of their gender.
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