The letter also cites a recent report by the Women's Media Center that showed a decrease in the number of the Journal's A-section bylines by women in September, October, and November.

“Women are not equal partners in telling the story, nor are they equal partners in sourcing and interpreting what and who is important in the story,” Women’s Media Center president Julie Burton said in a press release.

The report, the fifth annual edition of its kind, has found "areas of progress, regress and, sadly, outright pushback," Julie Burton, the president of the Women's Media Center, wrote in a foreword to the report.

On the political spectrum, abortion may be categorized as a women’s issue. But in U.S. newspapers and wire services, men weigh in more often than women about reproductive rights, according to a new report commissioned by the Women’s Media Center and conducted by the research firm Novetta.

“While the slight uptick in some categories is encouraging, women still are nowhere near parity and men continue their dominance. Executives must do better in addressing the disparity of women behind the camera,” WMC President Julie Burton said.

“Women still lag behind their male counterparts in these influential behind-the-scenes roles,” said Julie Burton, WMC president. “Women represent only 28 percent of all non-acting nominations, and there are no women nominees in 18 of the non-acting categories. This is unacceptable. These numbers do not reflect the tremendous talent, experience, and impact of female writers, producers, editors and directors. While the slight uptick in some categories is encouraging, women still are nowhere near parity and men continue their dominance. Executives must do better in addressing the disparity of women behind the camera.”

As WMC president Julie Burton explained in a statement, “Women still lag behind their male counterparts in these influential behind-the-scenes roles. While the slight uptick in some categories is encouraging, women still are nowhere near parity and men continue their dominance. Executives must do better in addressing the disparity of women behind the camera.”

“This is unacceptable,” WMC President Julie Burton said in a statement calling on executives to address the gender disparity. “These numbers do not reflect the tremendous talent, experience, and impact of female writers, producers, editors and directors.”

“Women still lag behind their male counterparts in these influential behind-the-scenes roles,” said Julie Burton, WMMC president. “Women represent only 28 percent of all non-acting nominations, and there are no women nominees in 18 of the non-acting categories. This is unacceptable. These numbers do not reflect the tremendous talent, experience, and impact of female writers, producers, editors and directors."

“While the slight uptick in some categories is encouraging, women still are nowhere near parity and men continue their dominance," said Julie Burton, WMC president. "Executives must do better in addressing the disparity of women behind the camera.”

"One of the ideas we’ve had is that feminism is whatever people say it is or what it is for themselves, which is a nice idea but not a political idea. My feminism challenges institutions to change." Soraya Chemaly

"Right now, only 32 percent of CBS Nightly News’ anchors, field reporters, and correspondents are women. In The Status of Women in U.S. Media in 2017, the Women’s Media Center found that female anchored news shows hire more women for these positions than their male led counterparts. Judy Woodruff's NewsHour on PBS, which she co-anchored with Gwen Ifill prior to Ifill's death last year, leads evening news broadcasts in producing the work of female news correspondents."

Men accounted for 61 percent of the bylines that appeared in the front section of The Times last year, according to data soon to be published by the Women’s Media Center, a group that analyzes thousands of bylines across 10 top newspapers every year.