USA - REPORT FINDS WOMEN STILL UNDERREPRESENTED,
MISREPRESENTED IN US MEDIA
Direct Link to Full 66-Page 2014
Report:
While noting barriers broken by top
women in media, this 2014 Report notes a troubling status quo and, in some
places, slipping back.
- Newsroom women staffers continued to hover at 36
percent, a figure largely unchanged since 1999. Nevertheless, the count
for women of color continued its more extreme fluctuations.
- A three-month snapshot of The New York Times’ front
page articles showed that men were quoted 3.4 times more often than women,
though the rate was not as high when women wrote the story.
- At the nation’s three most prestigious newspapers and
four newspaper syndicates, male opinion page writers outnumbered women
4-to-1.
- White men continued to dominate the ranks of Sunday
morning news talk show guests, except on a single MSNBC show with a black
female host.
- More white women but fewer women of color have been
directing prime-time TV shows.
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In more than 50 print publications and websites
covering sports, editors are 90 percent white and 90 percent male and were
slammed with an “F” in an Associated Press Sports
Editors-commissioned study.