The 'real problem' of being a female journalist in Botswana

The challenges faced by female journalists are bigger than being intellectually undermined, relegated to simply “lifestyle” writers, or being clamped in the stereotype of journalists being drunkards, promiscuous and happy-go-lucky entities. With regard to the latter, when people want you to be what’s in their mind, they will go to all ends to satisfy this idea because they think they know you based on vague impressions.

There is also a sense that women complain a lot. I for one have been called a cry-baby, a bitch, and God knows what else. I’m the least bit concerned because I know my truth.