Women as Contributors

May 2006: Former Glamour deputy editor Ruth Davis Konigsberg found that, on average, women write one article for every three written by men in the Atlantic, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Alternet's Ann Friedman found that the ratio of male to female contributing writers for progressive magazines was 30:5 at the Washington Monthly, 26:4 at the Nation and 21:12 at the American Prospect. PBS's "News Hour" is largely a stag event, with fewer than 2 out of 10 guests being female.

March 2005: Los Angeles Times op-ed pages had 20 percent female contributors, the New York Times had 17 percent and the Washington Post had 10 percent.

Sources for News

May 2005: The Project for Excellence in Journalism found more than three-quarters of all news stories contain male sources, while only a third of stories contain even a single female source. The data was drawn from an examination of 16,800 news stories across 45 different news outlets during 20 randomly selected days over nine months. The disparity holds true across newspapers, cable, network news and the online world.

Women as a Focus

July 2004: The Readership Institute in a study of 52 U.S. newspapers found that 2.7 percent of the news stories focused on women on weekdays and 3 percent focused on women on Sundays.

Women Who Lead in Communication/ Media

January 2004: The White House Project study found women comprise just 15 percent of executive leaders and just 12 percent of board members in top communication companies. Only 5 percent had "clout" titles. The study examined board members and top executives at the 57 communications companies in the Fortune 500.