Analysing the Evolvement of Family Section and Changing Roles of Women:a study of Chinatimes, 1959-2004

• Main Authors: Liu,pei-shih, 劉佩詩
• Other Authors: 馮建三
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16455713099400641235

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 新聞研究所 === 95 === This thesis focuses upon the Family section of the Chinatimes and examines its presentations of female roles during the past fifty years on a daily basis, ranging from November 25, 1956 to December 31, 2004. The author discerns that historical evolvements of the Family section into five periods: it came initially as a weekly, followed by a daily format, with the change of its title, the Family section took in more and more various soft subjects. The latest is the arrival of Taiwan’s newspaper deregulation and consequently the revival of Family section and the multiplication of weekend edition. As a conclusion, we should say that the Family section was deeply conditioned by the government’s newspaper policy of limiting the competition of the media. The press landscape has seen a sea-change since the late 1980s though, when topics used to be covered in the Family section gradually expanded into other pages. Commercial forces has by this time overridden political effect. The reader participation is the most important and distinguished characteristic in Family section. Family section is considered to defend our social value. From the reader’s argument, it is found that readers make more efforts than the editors. The female roles are represented in Family section.The changes from housewife image that helps the husband and teaches the children, to the professional women image that looks after both work and family. However, even when economically independent, women have never been released; instead, they take much more stress than before. After 1980s, raise of economic and openness of politics ,the social roles of women have seemed to be more abundant.