The Role of Iraqi Newspaper Websites in Enhancing Public Interest in Women's Empowerment Issues

Abstract

The researcher summarized the definition of the research problem with the main question: (What is the role of Iraqi newspaper websites in enhancing public interest in women’s empowerment issues?).The most prominent objectives of the research are the following: knowing the exposure patterns and habits of female respondents using Iraqi websites concerned with women’s empowerment issues, and revealing the mechanisms of the research sample’s interaction with women’s empowerment issues on websites.The research is of the descriptive type, and the survey method and the scientific research tool (questionnaire) were used. The researcher adopted a comprehensive inventory of the audience, represented by female teachers in public and private media departments and colleges in Iraq, except for the Kurdistan region. The research sample consisted of (187) female teachers interested in empowerment issues. woman. The research reached a set of results, the most prominent of which are: More than half of the female respondents are exposed to Iraqi websites to a moderate degree, and that most of the female respondents use (the smartphone) to browse to follow up on women’s empowerment issues, and that most of the female respondents discuss women’s empowerment issues with (the family), as well as On the emergence of (social issues) women’s empowerment issues that female respondents prefer to pursue.