Lecture: "You Oughta be Delicate and Durable!”: How Vietnamese Female Leaders Are Portrayed in the News"

Lecture: "You Oughta be Delicate and Durable!”: How Vietnamese Female Leaders Are Portrayed in the News"

Location

Watson Library 3 West
University of Kansas
Lawrence Kansas 66044
Kansas US
Monday, September 9, 2019 - 12:30pm

Hong Vu, assistant professor of journalism at KU, will discuss how the news media reinforce the double burden norm, which sets the expectations Vietnamese society has for women. Although Vietnam has committed to the quota policy for female representation in leadership for years, the policy doesn’t seem to work.