The Role Of The Print Media Towards Promoting Women Development A Case Study Of Kinondoni District

ABSTRACT

The major objective was to examine the role of print media in promoting

women development in Kinondoni district. The study was conducted in

Kinondoni Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, Women organization;

Women analysts, Government leaders and print Media officials were involved

in the study.

A total of seventy participants, 30 women analysts, 20 women organization,

10 Government leaders and 10 print media officials were involved in the

study. The study question was investigated in line with the research

questions of the study.

The first research question was "How does your institution promote women

development in Kinondoni?" The study findings revealed that: through

empowering women, promoting women rights providing women programmes

in the magazines especially women magazine and news papers and

providing topics that are relevant to women development, organizing

seminars and providing education to women were the answers given here by

the respondents.

The Second research question was "What are the challenges do the print

media face during the process of promoting women development? The study

discovered that lack of fund, Traditional believes, Media ownership low level

of education among women, and low circulations were the answers". Consult

tables.

The third question was what are the impacts brought by the role of print

media in promoting women development in Kinondoni? The answer given by the respondents to this research question was as follows; women started