Newspaper and personal life of journalist women in eastern Spain: the professional aspects of the incompatibility with family life

Abstract

According to IFJ and UNESCO the principal obstacles of the journalism practice are: <1> the patriarchy model of the medias and <2> the family demands. This paper aims to explore the professional aspects of incompatibility with a family life on journalism. It focus on the newspapers established in eastern Spain. The results of this article is based on two set of information: <1> statistics and documentary revision (Census- 2001, Surveys of CIS) and <2> interviews in depth to journalist women. The work field has been doing from September to December of 2003. The analytic process of the grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Strauss & Corbin, 1990) assists the comparative analysis. The main results suggest actors, stereotypes, relations and practices in newspapers that affect personal life, for instance: dairy production, brief life of a new and/or vocational journalist. These characteristics are classified two groups: production process and professional practices.