• •Women hold only 3% of clout positions in the mainstream media.  (Annenberg Public Policy Center, “The Glass Ceiling Persists,” 2003)
• •Only one in four communications/media jobs created between 1990 and 2005 were filled by women. The only area where the share of women increased was in the newspaper industry—the lowest-paid industry in the sector, where many of the women are employed as part-time telephone sales positions.
  (Institute for Women’s Policy Research. “Making the Right Call,” 2006).
• •In 2007, women represented only 12.1% of the boards of directors of corporations in the information industry, and only 11.5% in the arts, entertainment and recreation corporations. In 2006, women represented 14.5% of the directors in the information industry and 14.7% in the arts, entertainment and recreation industry.
  (“Census: Women Board Directors,” Catalyst 2007, and 2006).
• •For full-time workers in the communications/media sector, a gender and race wage gap persists: White men are paid 29 percent more than white women and 46 percent more than women of color. (Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Making the Right Call” 2006)
• •Among communications companies in the Fortune 500, women comprise just 15 percent of top executives and only 12 percent of board members.
  (Annenburg Public Policy Center, “The Glass Ceiling Persists,” 2003)
• •At current rate of changes, it will take women 47 years to reach parity with men as Corporate Officers of the Fortune 500 (“Corporate Officers and Top Earners,” Catalyst, 2006).
• •“With few exceptions, we have not moved beyond tokenism in the number of women in top leadership positions or serving on the boards of communications companies. Men still hold the vast majority of positions. The glass ceiling is firmly in place." former Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Susan Ness (Sheila Gibbons, 2004)
• •Groups such as Fox Entertainment, McGraw-Hill, and advertising firms Grey Global Group and Omnicom did not have women in any of their executive positions. (Sheila Gibbons, 2004).
• •The median salary for male journalists in all news media is $46,758 and $37,731 for women. (Sources: Dates 2007, Cramer 2007, Nicholson 2007, Media Management Center 2006, 2001. From Fact Sheet #2 in “Women and News” Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, November 2007)

From April 2009
•In 2009 there are 95.9 million men online and 103.2 million women online. Men are 48.2 percent of the overall Internet population (those who access the Internet at least once a month from any location). Projections show that by 2013, men will only make up 47.9 percent of Internet users.
•In 2008 alone, at least four reports came out comparing the behaviors of men and women online. For example, Nielsen Online found that men prefer user-generated video sites (like YouTube) while women take more of a liking to video streams of TV shows (such as those offered from Hulu). Social Web search company Rapleaf put out a report just a few months later saying that men are more likely to use social networks for business while women use them to build personal relationships. Men are also more likely than women to share their writings, photos, videos, and other creations online, according to Northwestern University.

From Aug 2008:
•Websites for women, by women, have undergone rapid growth in the past few years, nearly doubling since July '06 and rising 35 percent last year alone, reaching 84 million visitors in July, according to comScore.
•Advertisers served 4.4 billion display ads across women's websites in May, the New York Times reported.

• •Women make up just over a third of the full-time staff at daily newspapers; women of color only represent about 17 percent of all women working full-time. Men of color account for just over ten percent of all full-time men. (American Society of Newspaper Editors, "Newsroom Employment Census," April 2008)
• •Women make up only one-third of the top 100 syndicated opinion columnists in the U.S. Just three of the top ten op-ed writers are women. (Media Matters, “Black and White and Re(a)d All Over,” 2007)
• •The ratio of men to women writers in national “general interest” magazines from 2001 to 2005 was 3:1 (1,446:447)
  (Ruth Davis Konigsberg, 2006).
• •Bylines in the nation’s top intellectual and political magazines are heavily male. In an analysis of 11 magazines published between October 2003 and May 2005), male-to-female byline ratios ranged from 13-1 at the National Review to 7-1 at Harper’s and The Weekly Standard to 2-1 at the Columbia Journalism Review. (Columbia Journalism Review, July-August 2005)
• •The percentage of women opinion columnists at the eight biggest syndicates rose from 24.4% to 24.5% in 2007, reflecting the change from 33 of 135 Op-Ed writers to 34 of 139. (Editor & Publisher, 2007).
• •Women constitute about one third of full-time journalists at daily newspapers and about the same percentage at all other news media, but that’s roughly the same percentage that it was 25 years ago. Overall, women hold 29% of top newspaper jobs and 18% of publisher seats. (Ellen Goodman, keynote speech “Women and News,” “Women and News” Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, November 2007)
• •According to data from 2007 82% of Presidents, Publishers, and CEO's at large newspapers were men, 74% of Editors, Executive Editors, Senior Vice Presidents, News Vice Presidents were male, and 52% of all newspaper personell were men. (Sources: Dates 2007, Cramer 2007, Nicholson 2007, Media Management Center 2006, 2001. From Fact Sheet #2 in “Women and News” Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, November 2007)

• •Ninety percent of radio program directors are men; 85% of the general managers they report to are men. Women were not listed in any executive positions at 5 out of the top 9 radio groups. The major publicly held radio companies (“Women in Media: Facts & Figures,” MIW Radio Group, 2006).
• •In 2008, women made up 20 percent of radio news directors, a slight decrease from 23.5 percent in 2007. (RTNDA/Hofstra University, “2008 Women and Minorities Survey)
• •Women represented only 15 radio hosts from the top 100 radio programs, and only 14% of hosts out of the full 250 (“Heavy Hundred,” Talkers Magazine, 2007).
• •Women comprise fifteen percent of executive leaders, and twelve percent of board member in top communications companies (“Status of Women in the Industry,” Sheila Gibbons, NYWIFT, 2004)
• •Just 4.7 percent of all full-power commercial broadcast radio stations are owned by an entity with a female CEO or president. Only 1 percent of the stations not owned by women are controlled by an entity with a female CEO or president. (Free Press, “Off the Dial: Female and Minority Radio Station Ownership in the United States.” 2007)
• •According to data from 2007 of those working in radio 87% of News general mangers were men with only 13% being women, additionally 74% of News directors were male and only 26% female, and of all personnel working in radio stations 78% were male.(Sources: Dates 2007, Cramer 2007, Nicholson 2007, Media Management Center 2006, 2001. From Fact Sheet #2 in “Women and News” Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, November 2007)

1. •In 2009, women directors actually dropped by 2% since 2008, accounting for just 7% of directors on the 250 top-grossing movies of 2009. That’s the same number as 1987. Only 2% of the top 250 films credited female cinematographers, and just 8% of writers were female; 86% of the films had no female writers credited. (View executive summary as pdf).
2. •In 2007, women comprised 15% of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors working on the top 250 domestic grossing films. This represents a decline of 2 percentage points from 1998 and represents no change from 2006 source: “The Celluloid Ceiling,” Martha Lauzen, 2007. (View executive summary as a pdf).
3. •Three out of four women heads of studios that stepped down in 2002 year were replaced by men in 2003. (“The Celluloid Ceiling,” Martha Lauzen, 2003).
4. •Women directors, writers, and editors in Hollywood totaled 15% working on the top 250 domestic grossing films in 2006. (“The Celluloid Ceiling ,” Martha Lauzen, 2006).
5. •Women comprised 24% of all creators, executive producers, producers, directors, writers, editors, and directors of photography working on situation comedies, dramas, and unscripted programs airing on the broadcast networks during the 2005-06 season (“Boxed In: Women on Screen and Behind the Scenes in the 2005-06 Prime Time Season,” Martha Lauzen, 2006).