When the Emmy-winning comedian and Trainwreck star, 34, opened the Women’s Media Center Awards on Thursday addressing body image and women in Hollywood, she got a nod of approval from feminist icon Gloria Steinem

PBS NewsHour co-anchors and managing editors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were honored with the Women’s Media Center’s Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award at the Center’s 10th anniversary gala in New York.

Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, though, points out that the objectification is meaningful, as is the part of the announcement that says Playboy will con-tinue to feature women posing and dressing provocatively.

The show, which follows advertising executive Draper from the 1950s to the 1970s, has historically fared much better in behind-the-scenes Emmys categories. Most notably, it has produced more nominations for women writers than any other TV show of the last decade, according to a 10-yearanalysis published this week by the Women’s Media Cen-ter, a nonprofit that examines women’s representation pri-marily in entertainment and journalism

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.

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

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

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.

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.