There’s much more consciousness how the media impacts our lives. There’s more activism. There’s more young girls convinc-ing magazines not to photoshop their fashion photographs and distort women’s bodies. “There’s much more consciousness but there’s not nearly enough actual change of who’s on and what topics are covered. But we’ll get there.” — Gloria Steinem

Speaking on the weekly radio show from the Women’s Media Cen-ter that she co-founded, Steinem calls Abramson’s firing a “huge double standard,” pointing to difficult male editors at The Times.

Steinem took part in a roundtable discussion on Women’s Media Center’s weekly radio show WMC Live with Robin Morgan. When asked about comments decrying Abramson as “difficult” or “brusque,” Steinem was quick to point out that male editors of the Times were even more demanding than Abramson. “It’s obvious that it’s a double standard, a huge, huge double stan-dard,” Steinem, who is also a co-founder of the WMC, said. “I mean, we have all known editors of newspapers, and especially The New York Times, I’m thinking of Abe Rosenthal, who was so difficult that he was legendary. So, there’s clearly a double standard.

Toward the end of the hour, Simmons turned the discussion to the lack of female show runners in Hollywood, a topic Dunham has spoken out about multiple times in the past. But her comments carried even more weight this week after the Women’s Media Center released its annual Status of Women in U.S. Media re-port. The center, founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, seeks to make women visible and powerful in media. As such, its annual report analyzed women in all facets of media, both in front of and behind the camera.

The media is failing women across the board,” said Julie Burton, president of the Center. “The numbers tell a clear story for the need for change on every media platform.” The Women’s Me-dia Center is a nonprofit organization founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem. It released the re-port in advance of a panel discussion on “Women, Media and Leadership” being held Wednesday in conjunction with Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Karen Finney, host of MSNBC’s “Disrupt with Karen Finney” is moderating the panel.