Respectthegirls! discursive analysis on the developments of the chronicle “The intern/melissinha's first day of work⇝ by correio braziliense

Abstract

In this article, our objective is to discuss the production of gender inequality by journalism, both in the content production and in media companies' work structures, and the public process of denouncing this phenomenon in social networks. The publication of a chronicle in the newspaper Correio Braziliense entitled “The Intern/Melissinha's first day of work”, is the starting point. By sexualizing the entry of young women journalism students into the newspaper's editorial office, the chronicle reproduces and naturalizes gender-based violence that is systematically installed in some of these spaces. We note that the case can be understood as a feminization process that undertook discursive battles to combat gender discrimination against female journalism interns or against professional journalist women.