On average, women make 75 cents to every dollar a man earns. This wage gap is greatly represented in the journalism profession. According to the Women’s Media Center, women only hold three percent of the positions of power in mainstream media. Only one in four communications and media jobs created between 1990 and 2005 were filled by women.
Groups such as Fox Entertainment, McGraw-Hill, and advertising firms Grey Global Group and Omnicom do not have women in any of their executive positions. White men are paid 29 percent more than white women and 46 percent more than women of color in the communications and media sector.
- The median salary for male journalists in all news media is $46,758, but the average salary for women is $37,731.
“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,” Susan Ness, former Federal Communications Commission Commissioner, said in 2004. “Men still hold the vast majority of positions. The glass ceiling is firmly in place.”
Source: Christian Science Monitor.
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