Women in Media | Sunita Aron | TEDxSRMUWomen

Women in media, challenges, experiences, inspiration and goals. Sunita Aron has spent almost 30 years with a prominent national daily, leading from the front fearlessly, fighting for women equality and emancipation. She has been striving to provide a platform for women and assist them in their foray for independence and recognition. This talk gives us an insight into her journey and inspires women to pursue their dreams unabashedly. Sunita Aron is an author, reporter, an anchor and an activist and Senior Resident Editor at Hindustan Times. Her main job is news management and man management. She goes to colleges, IIm, IIT's for media advocacy as she has come to the conclusion that people in high positions don't know how the media functions. However what excites her, ignites her imagination are achievers in any field and anywhere, in small towns, in villages, or anywhere in the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@deepikasingh9473]

Wonderful. I have had the privilege of working under Sunita mam for five years. She is an inspiration.

[@sunitaaron5134]

thanks Deepika

[@smjohri]

Well I never worked with Sunita Ji in the same organization but had the opportunity to be a her colleague from another media house and since 1982 one of the greatest admirer as a Woman Journalist and shared may stories to work together. Best of Luck to her...

[@sunitaaron5134]

Thanks-- can you play it on screen for your students

[@smjohri]

Sure , I will.

[@drjagritisingh5795]

Superb..Very powerful and inspirational speech

[@edmsing]

PBS Newshour did a story on discrimination faced by some women in country music, seeking to be signed with a record deal as a singer-songwriter, being told, they cannot sign her now, they already have a female singer-songwriter under contract. I know this is a stretch, but the above kinda reminded me of the early days of women in television news, after graduating with honors with a degree in journalism, to be hired as a cub reporter, required certain appearance adjustments, false eyelashes, pouting red lips and most of all, streaking blond dyed hair, and in some extreme cases, a straight haired wig, may seem like an exaggeration, but are you sure?

[@thescienciticshow179]

Do she works in Lucknow hindustan times office ?

[@rakeshnayak7423]

Didi parnam bahut acha ha

[@sunitaaron5134]

thanks

[@edmsing]

Let’s say one of the all-news cable networks, or even one of your local stations has on staff an over sixty-year-old gray-haired woman with distinguished journalistic skills, it’s a given, you will never see her. However, what you will see, and often, are streaking blond hair dyed women with clownish red painted lips. It seems some viewer managers think we as consumers of news would rather see a displayed pimped-up woman in place of my sixty-year-old described above journalists.