The Women’s Media Center in its most recent report noted that men still dominate the top editing spots in my industry, snag the most bylines, are quoted the most and dominate radio and TV as talking heads. Last year, the report found that the New York Times had the fewest female bylines among the nation’s 10 larg-est newspapers at 31 percent, compared to the Chicago Sun-Times’ 46 percent, the Wall Street Journal’s 43 percent and the Washington Post’s 41 percent. That, and moving more women into leadership, Abramson said she was committed to change.

A study released earlier this year by the Women’s Media Center found that 31% of stories in the New York Times are written by women, the lowest percentage among the nation’s top 10 most widely circulated newspapers. The Chicago Sun-Times led the way at 46%; the Los Angeles Times fell in the middle at 36%. The study quoted Abramson saying she was working to close the gap.

As the Times’ public editor noted in a column published just two days before Abramson’s firing, the Times has the lowest represen-tation of women on its pages among the 10 top newspapers. According to a recent study from the Women’s Media Center, with 69 percent of its bylines coming from men.

She also emphasized Abramson’s hiring of Margaret Sullivan, the paper’s public editor and the first woman in that position, as a noteworthy accolade. Just this week, Sullivan brought up issues of gender imbalance at the Times. Her column reported results from a Women’s Media Center study that said among the top 10 most widely circulated papers, the Times had the biggest gender gap, “with 69 percent of bylines going to men.

The Women’s Media Center found that men still dominate the media industry, from bylines to leadership positions to editorial page writers to guests on the Sunday news shows.The stats help explain why there was such a visceral reaction to Abramson’s fall and Nougayrede’s departure Wednesday among many women in the field.

In a Monday New York Times column by Margaret Sullivan, the paper’s public editor, extensively quoted from a Women’s Media Center study that noted the gender gap that persists in the byline count and number of opinion writers, for example, at the country’s 10 most widely circulated newspapers, which would include The Times

Some facts, according to a recent Women’s Media Center study: At the nation’s 10 most widely circulated newspapers, men had 63 percent of the bylines, nearly two for every one for a woman. (The study looked at bylines only in the first section of the papers.) Among those papers, The Times had the biggest gender gap — with 69 percent of bylines going to men...Back in the office last week, I chatted with Janet Elder, a deputy man-aging editor, about the Women’s Media Center report, what the numbers mean and how much things have changed for women in journalism.

It’s been 20 years, but things haven’t changed as much as we might expect. A new report by the Women’s Media Center found that male reporters still accounted for 63 percent of bylines in the nation’s top 10 papers and about the same proportion of newsroom staff. All but one of the individual winners of Pulitzer Prizes in journalism this year were male.

Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, said that research she had done as part of “Name It, Change It,” a nonpartisan project to end sexist coverage of female candidates, found that while sexist coverage hurt female politicians, responding to it could benefit them. Sometimes, even the mere hint of sexism is enough to hurt the candidate perpetrating the language.”

The shooting, as it happens, came shortly after the Women’s Media Center released its report, “The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2014.”The snapshot taken in the last quarter of 2013 found men still had almost two-thirds of all bylines and on-camera appearances in the major newspapers, television networks, newswire services and online news sites. We have seen notable improvements over the years, but the report points to “a troubling status quo and, in some places, a slipping back in time.”

Yet it’s clearly a journalism-industry gender moment when six men press a White House official on the same point and end up with the same answer from the man in front of them. Last week’s report from the Women’s Media Center on the status of women in American journalism found continued dominance by men in the flagship TV news programs (ABC News, NBC News, CBS News and PBS): They anchored 60 percent of news broadcasts and delivered 66 percent of reports, as judged during the final quarter of 2013. Bylines at Reuters and AP, too, favored men by a 68 to 32 percent and 57 to 43 percent, respectively.

“When media are overwhelmingly male (and still, alas, over-whelmingly white), they just aren’t anywhere near as good as they could be,” said Geneva Overholser, a Women’s Media Center board member, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and former ombudsman for The Washington Post in a statement.

Women get fewer bylines in print and online and less time on air than men by a considerable margin, a new study by the Women’s Media Center finds. The report, The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2014, was released today revealing that men receive 63 percent of byline credits in print, Internet and wire news.

That the Oscars aren’t a whites-only boys club is obviously worth celebrating, but we shouldn’t pretend that Hollywood’s award ceremony is an accurate reflection of Hollywood. It’s not. A re-cent report from the Women’s Media Center found that race and gender disparities still mar the film industry.

As a recent Women’s Media Center report pointed out, Ange-lina Jolie, Denzel Washington and Liam Neeson all earned be-tween $30 and $35 million last year. That sum makes Jolie Hol-lywood’s highest-paid female thespian. That same sum, however, barely puts the two men on to the top 10 list of male earners.