Global: Women's Lowly News Status Is a Global Insult

The latest global study of women in journalism finds that women continue to be the far-second sex in breaking and making news. Monitors for the third Global Media Monitoring Project studied a full day of radio, television and newspaper content in 76 countries on a single day, Feb. 16, 2005. The study found that women continue to be underrepresented, and sometimes outright ignored, as subjects of and sources for news, regardless of the medium. There is not a single major news topic in which women outnumber men as newsmakers. "Even in stories that affect women profoundly, such as gender-based violence, it is the male voice (64 percent of news subjects) that prevails," the report released last week in London found.