You can't be what you can't

see.
Marie Wilson of the White House
Project
-Teens and College Students consume 10 hours
and 45 minutes of media each day.
When children are 7 years old, an equal
number of girls and boys say that they want to
be President when they grow up. But over
time, something happens. By the time they
are 15, a wide gap has emerged between the
number of boys who still want to be President
and the now much smaller group of girls (15%
less) who want to be President.

Radio
Women represented only 15 radio hosts from
the top 100 radio programs, and only 14% of
hosts out of the full 250 (Heavy Hundred,
Talkers Magazine, 2007).
87% of radio program directors are men.
Print
36.9% of newspaper staff are women, the exact
same stat since 1999.
By a margin of 3 to 1, male front-page bylines
outnumbered female bylines during the 2012
presidential election.
29% of obits in the NY Times were of women,
22% in the Boston Globe.
In 2011, only 22% of OP-Eds in The NY Times
were authored by women, 17% in the WSJ. (33%
in online sources like Huffington Post and Salon)
http://www.theopedproject.org/
Television

On the broadcast networks Sunday morning
political talk shows (NBCs Meet the Press, ABCs
This Week, CBS Face the Nation, and Fox
Broadcasting Cos Fox News Sunday):
Male guests outnumber female guests by an average
ratio of four-to-one.
White guests outnumber guests of any other race or
ethnicity by nearly seven-to-one.
All four shows are hosted by white men

Experts on the news
Women are inching closer to parity as people
providing popular opinion in the news, at 44%
of persons interviewed in the news in this
capacity compared to 34% in 2005.

Despite the gains, only 20% of experts are
women. In contrast, 80% of experts in the
news area male.

79% of The Daily Shows guests in 2010 were
men and only 21% were women.
The Colbert Reports 2010 guest line-up was
even more homogeneous, featuring 82.5%
male guests.



Women Journalism and Mass
Communication Graduates

While women represent less than half of
several key media occupations, for over a
decade women they have outnumbered men
by two or three to one among journalism and
mass communication graduates. (Becker et al.,
2010).