Kate McCarthy runs SheSource at the Women’s Media Center, a database of over 1,000 female experts that journal-ists can turn to when looking for sources. She noted that peo-ple tend to go first to people who look like them—and that men in particular tend to turn to men. “I think that women have been underrepresented in science and technology over time, and I think old habits die hard. I think people are used to seeing certain sorts of people doing an authoritative voice in a particular area; I think that science journalists have tended to be more male and men tend to turn to men more than they turn to women, and more than women turn to women.”

A lengthy 2015 study by the Women’s Media Centershowed that when it came to stories about rape in sports, less than 2 percent of the coverage was devoted to the impact on the alleged victim.

In order to paint a more accurate picture of the world we live in, Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, told Glamour women must be equal partners in deciding what constitutes a story and how that story should be told.