A Comparative Study of Women News in IRIB Central News Agency, BBC Persian and VOA in 2009

This research studies IRIB, BBC Persian and VOA functions and analyzes women news in these sites in 2009. Combining agenda setting and feminist theories, we attempt to study and explore main causes of using these techniques to cover different news. Content analysis is the method which has been used in this article to evaluate how I.R.I.B, BBC and VOA web sites highlight and process women news. The findings indicate that there is a meaningful difference among these news sites in using persuasion method, regarding news objectivity and feminist perspective. Also, findings indicate that there are significant differences in representing women problems. BBC and VOA sites more than I.R.I.B have noticed to political, religious, social and juridical difficulties and have attempted to exaggerate women's problems.