MediaSmarts Tags - Gender Representation

Women working in the media have made some inroads. In 2011, the International Women's Media Foundation reported that around the world, only a third of journalists are women. [1] Studies conducted by Canadian researchers Gertrude Robinson and Armande Saint-Jean have found that 28 per cent of newspaper editors are female. [2] And according to San Diego State University communications professor Martha Lauzen, 18 per cent of the directors, executive producers, writers, cinematographers and editors on the 250 top-grossing films of 2011 were women. [3]