Analysis of Representation of Women’s Issues in Iranian Electronic Newspapers in the 90s

With the modernization of social life, electronic newspapers have had a great impact on people’s lives. As one of the most important mass media, they each have different policies and attitudes. In the meantime, attention to gender is important in newspaper articles. One of these fundamental issues is the role of women in the efficiency of producing gender content in newspapers with distinct intellectual tastes and perspectives. Based on this, different attitudes and views of women have been formed in the factional newspapers (fundamentalist and reformist), each of which wants to instill women’s rights in the people from their own point of view. The main question of this research is what has been the approach of the views of these two currents towards different issues of women in the electronic newspapers Resalat and Etemad in the last decade? This research was conducted using content analysis method, with a quantitative, interpretive and analytical report. While examining the intellectual foundations and religious perception of the two currents, their positions on social, family, injuries, health, education, political, economic, sports, cultural and legal issues of women are compared. As a result of the findings of this study, it was found that there are significant differences between the position of the two political currents in relation to the generality of women’s issues. A newspaper tries to examine its views and ideas about women based on the current positions of society in the form of a fundamentalist movement, but considers itself committed to jurisprudential and religious positions. Another newspaper, in the form of a reformist movement, tries to raise issues related to the defense of women’s rights in the international community, and in this regard, it does not hesitate to challenge the jurisprudential and religious opinions of the society and to raise religious issues in these issues.