On Watching Clarissa Ward Report From Ukraine
24.02.2022 - 23:51
/ glamour.com
Glamour opening up about the judgment she faces for doing her job as an international reporter while parenting two small children. Ward wrote that in the field she has experienced blindfolding, interrogations, bombing, shootings, and sexual assault. She went on: “So I guess it should not come as a surprise or offense that people want to know if I will continue the same sort of work now that I am a mother.
Yet every time I am asked, my jaw clenches involuntarily. ‘Well, I’m heading to Syria next week, so I guess things haven’t changed too much,’ I reply, scanning their faces for a hint of shock or judgment. What I really want to say is, 'Would you ask that question of my male colleagues? Would you assume that being a father changed their approach to dangerous assignments? Would you feel that having a child means they should rethink their careers?' But there’s no point in even posing such questions because I already know the answer.
Despite all the changes and progress made for women, men are still held to a different standard. Being a father is viewed differently than being a mother.” For Americans and other foreigners watching violence and panic shake Ukraine, reporters on the ground are key: they help us to not turn away from the gigantic suffering unfolding among regular people. Most of us don't know how to speak Ukrainian or Russian, we're not politicians, we're not on the ground.
Clarissa Ward and other reporters risking their safety in the region to bring us the news remind us that the stakes for the Ukrainian people are impossibly high. There are children, elderly people, families, and single people, forced to fear for their lives by a foreign power. There is no silver lining or sweet lesson.
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