A recent study by the Women’s Media Center found that women have scored only 19 percent of all non-acting nomi-nations over the past 10 years

Women were credited with only 36.1% of total bylines or on-camera appearances as anchors or reporters, according to a 2014 study by the Women’s Media Center (WMC), de-spite the large enrollment numbers in journalism colleges.

Sometimes women are killed after they’re raped, so we don’t find about them,” said Lauren Wolfe, director of the Women Under Siege project at the Women’s Media Cen-tre in New York. “Then you have the chaos of war, and you have people moving around, and on top of that you have the stigma that prevents women from coming forward.” Ms. Wolfe has been tracking sexualized violence in Syria for three years, listening to the stories of women in Jordanian refugee camps. The problem is “definitely underreported,” she said in a phone interview. It’s not just an issue of women being silenced by shame or stigma, but by official disregard and a lack of resources. “It comes down to a lack of money — you have to have the aid workers and support systems in place.