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Gloria Steinem calls for more accurate, informed and experienced reporting
Media coverage of U.S. campus rape and sexualized violence is significantly skewed toward the bylines and voices of men, according to a WMC report.
The Women’s Media Center's 10 year review of gender and EMMY nominations focused on the categories of writing (6), directing (8), editing (10), and producing (20). In its analysis of the nominations made for the years 2006 through 2015, WMC sought to take a detailed look at the gender ratios of jobs that have the most influence on what is depicted on the small screen. Out of all the nominees nominated in 44 writing, directing, editing, and producing categories over the past decade, 2,074 of them were women, representing only 22 percent of the total. There were 7,485 men nominated, 78 percent of the total.
Women represent only 22 percent of all nominees in 44 writing, directing, editing, and producing categories over the past decade.
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
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.
Hillary Clinton is the latest of many women who have run for president. In order to inspire more women to run, we have to teach girls and young women this history.
The analysis finds that across 19 non-acting categories, 149 men are nominated versus 35 women.
The Women’s Media Center, which was founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem and tracks gen-der equity, or lack thereof, in the media, found that in non-acting categories, women made up under 20 percent of the nominees. In seven categories — directing, writing, original screenplay and more — dudes drew all of the nominations. The one place where women are establishing a foothold is in documentary features, with women winning four times in the last decade and nabbing two of five nominations this year.
Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center stated, “The Women’s Media Center congratulates all Academy Award nominees – it is a great day of recognition for their talent and artistic vision. However, we are concerned that for the fourth year in a row, fewer than one in five of all non-acting nominees are women.”
We know there’s a problem but we don’t know how big it is. That’s what governments, scholars, and others argue when trying to figure out how to allot funds toward this problem of sexualized violence in conflict. If we don’t know the numbers, they ask, how can we help properly? How can we mount prosecutions? Offer reparations? Put in place proper advocacy? So the thinking goes.
Name It. Change It. has just released two new studies that demonstrate the gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
On Monday the Women’s Media Center released the shocking statistic, calculated by The 4th Estate Project, that from the presidential primary period (January 1 to April 15) to the general election (April 15 to August 25), 72 to 76 percent of newspaper stories covering the 2012 presidential election were written by men.