This research presents the main results of the study conducted from 2018 to 2020. Through an online questionnaire and in-depth interviews, which revealed the violence perceived by women journalists in the work environment in Bogota. The experiences and perceptions of the participants on the subject were known, but the study also inquired about the knowledge they had about the tools to handle situations of gender violence in the workplace and the implications of these in their journalistic work. The results showed that most of the women journalists interviewed had suffered psychological and gender-based violence, mainly at the hands of their superiors. Of the 123 women surveyed, 74% of them mentioned having suffered some type of physical, sexual or psychological aggression during their working life, but only 33 women sought some kind of protection mechanism. And 6 of the 9 women interviewed reported having suffered psychological violence. In addition, we were able to find that the women who at some point suffered aggressions that affected them psychologically, also recognized having suffered economic violence, but they did not relate it directly to the fact of being a woman, but rather to the working conditions of the country and the size of the company. These situations allowed certain violent behaviors to be reproduced systematically in the work environment, which led to mobbing.
publication date
September 17, 2021 7:41 PM
Research
keywords
Access to protection mechanism against workplace harassment and gender violence
Gender violence
Gender-based violence against women journalists in Bogotá
Mobbing
Violence in the workplace
Women journalists
Workplace harassment
Workplace harassment against women journalists in Bogotá
