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USA - REPORT FINDS WOMEN STILL UNDERREPRESENTED, MISREPRESENTED IN US MEDIA

Direct Link to Full 66-Page 2014 Report:

http://wmc.3cdn.net/6dd3de8ca65852dbd4_fjm6yck9o.pdf

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.

· 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.