Women’s Role in Media: Building Toward an Equitable Future
Women’s Role in Media: Building Toward an Equitable Future

Summary/Abstract: Over the course of a long career in newspapers, radio and television, I’ve seen many changes for women in the newsroom. Women are present in much greater numbers than when I began my journalism career four decades ago. About 40 percent of television staffs and 37 percent of newspaper staffs in the United States are women. At the top levels, there are still many more men than women. The top job in a broadcast newsroom is the news director. About 30 percent of television news directors and 27 percent of radio news directors are women. At newspapers, women are about 35 percent of all supervisors, a category which includes editors, managing editors, desk editors and others.

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