Women make up a quarter of the writer, director, producer and editor nominees at this year’s Emmys—up slightly from a total of 22% of nominees over the past 10 years, according to a study from the Women’s Media Center

According to an analysis by the Women’s Media Center of a decade’s worth of Emmy Awards data, only 22 percent of nominations for writing, directing, producing, and editing have gone to women in the past decade.

Clearly there is a connection between the broadcast, net-work, cable, and Netflix programs that hire exclusively male creators and the industry-wide gender divide. When there are few jobs for women, it is easy to see why so few women in non-acting categories are recognized for their excellence, Women’s Media Center president Julie Burton says.

Nominations for the 67th Emmy Awards, which air Sunday, reflect a large gender disparity as women make up only 25 percent of this year’s nominated writers, directors, editors and producers. That percentage has shown little improve-ment over 10 years, according to a report conducted by non-profit the Women’s Media Center, which examined Emmy nominations for writing, directing, editing and producing from 2006 through 2015

Women are on camera 32% percent of the time, according to the Women’s Media Center’s annual report The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2015.

While they [women] made up 73 percent of graduates in the field in 2013, they made up 36 percentof the news editori-al staff in newspapers that year, according to the Women’s Media Center.

Business as usual: When discussing sexism in entertainment, many point to numbers alone — and for good reason. Only 27% of primetime TV creators, writers, producers, executive producers, photography directors and editors were female be-tween 2013 and 2014, the Women’s Media Center reported

US organisation Name It Change It presented 1,500 likely voters with the media profiles of two fictional political can-didates, one male and one female. Voters were divided into four groups: one quarter heard no reference to the female candidate’s appearance, while the other three groups were presented with either neutral, positive or negative descrip-tions of how she looked. The study itself used real quotes tak-en from media coverage of female candidates in 2012 elec-tions. The conclusion? “When media coverage focuses on a woman’s appearance, she pays a price in the horse race, in her favourability, in her likelihood to be seen as possessing positive traits, and in how likely voters are to vote for her.”

The Women’s Media Center annual reportfound that only 37.2 percent of newsroom staffs were made up of women, a figure that has gone nearly unchanged since 1999.

There is still a shocking lack of diversity in U.S. news rooms, according to the Women’s Media Center. Across print, televi-sion and online media, men receive 63 percent of byline credits

Host Maria Teresa Kumar talks to Kate McCarthy, the Director of the Women's Media Center SheSource, and Akiba Solomon, the Editorial Director of Colorlines, about the need for more women -- and women of color -- in U.S. newsrooms.

Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, explains the impact of women, on average, writing only a third of stories at major newspapers. “Media tells us our roles in society — it tells us who we are and what we can be,” Ms. Burton said in an introduction to the report. “This new report tells us who matters and what is important to media — and it is not women.”

The Women’s Media Center just released its annual re-port — and it breaks down a wealth of scary yet import-ant statistics on how women in journalism are represented across media platforms compared to their male colleagues. The numbers cast a bleak shadow on the future of journal-ism for aspiring newswomen

Julie Burton, president of WMC, broke down their find-ings in the report’s introduction: Women, who are more than half the population, are assigned to report stories at a substantially lower rate than men. In evening broadcast news, women are on-camera 32 percent of the time; in print news, women report 37 percent of the stories; on the Inter-net, women write 42 percent of the news; and on the wires, women garner only 38 percent of the bylines.

“Our research shows that women, who are more than half of the population, write only a third of the stories. Media tells us our roles in society — it tells us who we are and what we can be. This new report shows us who matters and what is important to media — and clearly, as of right now, it is not women,” center president Julie Burton said in a statement.