women/men inequality was noted in all media, starting with radio where female “presence” only reached 13%in 2020. The written press is a little better with 16%, followed by the electronic press with 18%. The highest rate was found on television with 22%.
These indicators show that journalists (of both sexes) almost systematically request men’s experts or communicators rather than their women’s counterparts for most of the subjects they say “sharp”.
Unions and political parties also contribute to this systematic invisibilization of women for the benefit of men. The distribution of speaking time between sex is edifying about this. During the electoral period, women only represented 9% in 2011, 13% in 2016 and 19% in 2015 and 2021. Men therefore keep a year old more than 80% of the antenna time. Even outside the electoral periods, women have never exceeded 18 % of the speaking time between 2010 and 2024. Again, men dominate largely, with averages varying between 82 % and 92 % of speaking time, depending on the year.
Even in press photographs, women are not very visible. Example, in 2020, out of 92 photographs analyzed, men appear alone in 71 % of cases, or 2.45 times more visible than women. Worse, in 2025, out of 216 photographs analyzed, men appear alone in 88 % of cases, 7.3 times more than women.
These rates, and many others, represent one of the forms of “symbolic violence” – as Latifa Akharbach qualified by citing Pierre Bourdieu – striking women in Morocco, as in most of the 115 other countries where the same study is carried out as part of the world media monitoring project focused on gender.
But it is not because it is a global phenomenon that you should not worry at the local level. Those among the many participants in the workshop initiated by HACA, starting with women and men journalists, highlighted it in the debate launched on this occasion, and which was moderate by the Director General of HACA, Benaissa Asloun. The president of the thematic working group on equality and parity within the House of Representatives, Najwa Koukouss joined them to deplore the asking for representativeness and evil female representativeness in the media. “This is a social phenomenon to which should be tackled in depth,” she recommended.
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This debate was enriched in particular by the representative of the National Council for Human Rights, who highlighted the danger of misogynous biases conveyed by artificial intelligence. These exchanges must appeal to others, because private information of the contribution of half of the company could only be biased. To awaken consciences, the HAC has prepared in partnership with Jawjab this awareness video capsule currently broadcast through social networks.
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