Statistics about Women in the Media

After doing research about women in the media, I have complied a couple of key statistics that stood out to me.

 

This pie chart shows the racial breakdown of women in sports journalism. But, what this chart does not show is how all of these numbers have decreased over a period of time.  For example, in 2000 51% of the women in Journalism were Native American but, as the years have progress that number has dropped to a staggering 38% in 2013.  Aside from Native American women, in 2010 50% of the women were African-American, but three years later, that number had decreased to 47%. 

(* all data taken from The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2014)

Now, looking more in depth into the world of sports journalism, as of 2013 90% of the sports editors in the United States are men and also 90% of them are white. Which shows that there is hardly any diversity in the field of sports journalism especially during a time when most consider many fields to be moving towards gender equality. Out of 150 newspapers and websites—they would give themselves an "F" for hiring women for jobs such as editors, columnists, copy editors and designers, which account for 14.6% of the total staff. (* all data taken from The Columbia Journalism Review)

This graph shows the gender representation in the newsrooms for the past 14 years. On contrary to what some believe, the numbers have not changed that much although women have made tremendous progress throughout the years.