August 2011
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June 2011
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NY Times: Why Women Don't Get Caught Up in Sex Scandals →
nytimes.com
And what it has to do with gender parity. A few statistics:
Women currently hold:
* 16.6 percent of the 535 seats in Congress
* 23.5 percent of the seats in state legislatures
* There are 6 female governors
* Of the 100 big-city mayors, 8 are women
May 2011
6 posts
Love this post. I am female and work as a radio and television traffic reporter in Sydney, Australia. Until recently I was the only female doing this job in this state. Now there are two of us. The company I work for has only ever had one female in a management role and that was over ten years ago. Brilliant! I look forward to more statistics on women in media that will piss me off!
Thanks, Sally!
CBS Chooses Another White-Haired White Dude to Save Evening News
“White men held 73 percent of board seats at Fortune 100 companies last year, up from 71 percent in 2004, according to the alliance, which advocates the inclusion of women and minorities on corporate boards. White women accounted for 15 percent in 2010, compared with 14 percent in 2004, while minorities made up 13 percent, down from 15 percent.”
—Corporate Boards Increasingly Fond Of White Men
April 2011
12 posts
Women in Film by the Numbers
This infographic is based on a study done by the USC Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism. The study “examined the gender of all speaking characters and behind the scenes employees on the 100 top grossing fictional films in 2008. A total of 4,370 speaking characters were evaluated and 1,227 above the line personnel.”
NBC May Name Tal Rabinowitz Head of Comedy
UPDATE: It’s official! Tal starts in June.
PREVIOUSLY: Deadline Hollywood is reporting that “that NBC’s head of comedy Jeff Ingold is expected to leave the network, and hot Sony TV comedy executive Tal Rabinowitz is in line to replace him” as EVP. Rabinowitz oversaw the series “The Big C” for Sony and will be joining a network that may lose some of its hottest comedy properties (“The Office” and “30 Rock”) in the coming year. Hopefully the this will influence the hiring of female talent through the ranks. (Via Jezebel)
Female Columnists in America's Top 10 Papers
Notes:
1) By “top 10” we mean in terms of circulation.
2) This only includes business, news and opinion columnists.
3) Here are the sources:
Congrats to the 10 Awesome Ladies Who Won Pulitzers Today!
Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune won the Pulitzer for investigative reporting. ”For her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action.”
Ellen Barry (along with colleague Clifford Levy) of the New York Times won for international reporting. ”For their dogged reporting that put a human face on the faltering justice system in Russia, remarkably influencing the discussion inside the country.”
Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times won for feature photography. ”For her intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city’s crossfire of deadly gang violence.”
Kathleen Gallagher and Alison Sherwood (along with colleagues Mark Johns, Gary Porter and Lou Saldivar) of the Milwaukee Journal won for explanatory reporting. “For their lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.”
Amy Ellis Nutt of the Newark Star-Ledger won the Pulitzer for feature writing. “For her deeply probing story of the mysterious sinking of a commercial fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean that drowned six men.”
Carol Guzy and Nikki Kahn (along with colleague Ricky Carioti) of the Washington Post won for breaking news photography. ”For their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.”
Jennifer Egan won for her novel, “A Visit from the Goon Squad.” And Kay Ryan won for “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems.”
Female Writers in Late Night by the Numbers
NOTES:
1) The host doubles as a writer on each of these shows but we did not include them in the counts.
2) Although Jimmy Kimmel only has one female writer, she is a co-head writer. None of the other shows hosted by men have female head writers.
3) Craig Ferguson’s only female writer is his sister.
$713,000 →
theweek.com
That’s the amount of money the gender pay gap ads up to over a 40-year career. In other words, over 40 years, women make nearly three-quarters of a million dollars less than their male counterparts.
- 80
Percent of the average man’s salary that his female counterpart makes one year out of college. “The gap between men’s and women’s salaries begins immediately upon entering the workforce,” says Sarah Green in the Harvard Business Review.
- 15.7
Percent of board seats at Fortune 500 companies held by women in 2010. That’s “an inexplicable statistic given the number of available qualified female candidates,” say Douglas A. McIntyre, Michael B. Sauter, and Ashley C. Allen in The Atlantic.
- $0.77
Amount full-time female employees are paid for every dollar their male counterparts make, according to census data
- $0.59
Amount full-time female employees were paid in 1970 for every dollar their male counterparts make. “Forty years and 18 cents,” says Marlo Thomas in The Huffington Post. “A dozen eggs has gone up 10 times that amount.”
Startling Stats: Women in TV and movies...
TELEVISION: In the 2009-10 prime-time television season, women accounted for 27% of all creators, executive producers, producers, directors, writers, editors, and directors of photography working on situation comedies, dramas, and reality programs airing on the broadcast networks. Women account for…
21% of show creators
22% of executive producers
39% of producers
29% of writers
16% of directors
19% of editors
3% of directors of photography
(Martha Lauzen, Boxed In, Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, San Diego State University) MOVIES: In 2009, women comprised 16% of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors working on the top 250 domestic grossing films. This represents a decline of 3 percentage points from 2001 and is even with 2008 figures.Women accounted for 7% of directors
8% of writers
17% of executive producers
23% of producers
18% of editors
2% of cinematographers.
See more at http://www.mediareporttowomen.com/statistics.htm
Fewer jobs AND lower pay
Women Unequal in Media Jobs Stats:
Only one in four communications/media jobs created between 1990 and 2005 were filled by women. The only area where the share of women increased was in the newspaper industry — the lowest-paid industry in the sector, where many of the women are employed in part-time telephone sales positions.
For full-time workers in the communications/media sector, a gender and race wage gap persists: White men are paid 29 percent more than white women and 46 percent more than women of color.
Among communications companies in the Fortune 500, women comprise just 15 percent of top executives and only 12 percent of board members.
To see more, go to: http://www.now.org/issues/media/women_in_media_facts.html#endref6
Busting the myth of the predominantly male movie audience
Entertainment execs love to use the excuse that they don’t hire women because their audience is primarily male, and they need a ‘male voice’. Guess what?…
Box Office
- In 2009 there were 217 million moviegoers. The total admissions was 1.4 billion dollars.
- Women were 113 million of the moviegoers and bought 55% of the tickets. Men are 104 million of the moviegoers and 45% of the tickets. Women made up 9 million more filmgoers than men. (Motion Picture Association of America)
