Share of Women in Newsrooms, Management Hasn't Changed Number ofus newspaper jobs USS newspaper supervisor positions
In the past 15 years, the percentage of women who work in newspaper newsrooms has barely budged. Women made up 36% of all newspaper staff in 2012 (the last year for which data are available), nearly unchanged from 37% in 1998, according to The American Society of News Editors’ annual census.
Virtually the same proportion of women (35%) worked in supervisory positions in newspapers in 2012, a number that has also barely changed since 1998, when it was at 34%. (At the Times itself, four of the top nine editors currently are women, even after Abramson’s departure.) It’s worth noting that these shares have remained the same during a period when newspaper newsrooms have been shrinking. Since 1998, nearly 17,000 of those jobs have been lost, according to ASNE.
Share of Women in Newsrooms, Management Hasn't Changed  | Number ofus newspaper jobs  | USS newspaper supervisor positions  | 15 thousand  | 60 thousand  | 20 323  | 4.514  | 50  | 36 99  | 12  | 3.143  | 33.8%  | 13,780  | WOMEN  | 34.6%  | 36.3%  | WOMEN  | 40  | 34.781  | 30  | 63.1%  | 8.821  | 66.2%  | 24.202  | 5 .944  | men  | 20  | men  | 63.7%  | 65. .4%  | 10  | 198  | 00  | 1902  | '904  | 190  | '08  | 10  | '12  | '98  | '00  | '00  | '04  | 190  | '08  | 10  | '12  | Source: Ame rican Society of News Editors  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 