Arab News at 44: The Saudi newspaper aiming for gender-balanced newsroom

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Sat, 2019-04-20 19:30

JEDDAH: Arab News has big plans to recruit more female staff.

Last year the newspaper outlined its aim to become the first newspaper in Saudi Arabia to have a gender-balanced newsroom. The drive — referred to internally as the “50:50 by 2020” initiative — covers all the newspaper’s bureaus and areas of operation.

The proportion of women working for the newspaper rose to more than a third in 2018, moving closer to the goal of a 50:50 gender-balanced newsroom by 2020, according to the Arab News “gender equality meter,” published in March.