A director of one of the world's main journalist organizations said Monday the status of female journalists worldwide has improved considerably but the issues of opportunity and gender equality still need to be addressed.
Bettina Peters, director of the worldwide Project Division of the International Federation of Journalists, told the one-day Asia Women Journalists Conference that one way of achieving better employment conditions and a better portrayal of women in the media "is by the security of numbers."
Peters said women have yet to push for better employment conditions that would give them equal pay and career opportunities, despite the rise in the number of female journalists around the world.