Women Hold Only About A Quarter of Top Media Executive Positions

As much as we hear about female media moguls Arianna Huffington, Tina Brown, and Janet Robinson, they are the exception more than the rule.

Women occupy only slightly more than a quarter of the leading managerial jobs “such as chief executive officer” at news companies worldwide, according to a survey taken of over 522 newspaper, radio, and television companies by the International Women’s Media Foundation, Bloomberg reports.

Overall, women represent 35 percent of the full-and part-time journalism workforce worldwide, and the survey shows typical evidence of a glass ceiling in that the lower the position in media companies, the less gender disparity.

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