This research was to assess the media framing of women in decision-making. It is common that when the relationship between women, politics, and media is explored, researchers typically concentrate on the political elite. The finding indicated that the media covering women’s participation in parliament/executive proceedings is low compared to their men counterparts’ coverage while depending on proposal, development, and passage of legislation into law and other decisions that affect their lives from the ones on the street doing their private activities to the general issues with perspective examples from Sudan and Kenya. Given the difficulties faced by women in media portray women trying to enter decision-making life differently, the assumption that women can do better than men in decision making including in politics is perfectly plausible.
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