Marwa Radi Al-Asadi, a teacher at the University of Karbala, obtained a doctorate degree with distinction from the College of Information at the University of Baghdad for her thesis entitled “Journalistic treatment of women’s empowerment issues on Iraqi websites and their reflection on shaping the attitudes of the Iraqi public.”
The thesis aimed to reveal the main frameworks used in the journalistic treatment of Iraqi women’s empowerment issues on Iraqi websites, and to find out which women’s empowerment issues the female respondents prefer to follow.
The thesis concluded that (social empowerment frameworks, cultural empowerment frameworks, and legal empowerment frameworks) topped the first three ranks for addressing women’s empowerment issues on websites, and the emergence of (social issues) among women’s empowerment issues that the female respondents followed, and the research hypothesis showed that journalistic treatment on websites Al-Iraqiya works to highlight certain issues to empower women and not others, which constitutes a priority in shaping public attitudes at a high level according to the statistical results of the research.
The thesis recommended the need to focus media pressure on the main active forces in women’s empowerment issues in order to obtain the greatest possible amount of rights and privileges that are in their interest to achieve comprehensive and sustainable development.
