Don't Judge A Women's Movement...

The Washington Post says in a story from its Sunday paper yesterday that women now dominate TV newsrooms across the country, seemingly implying that this means women have more power in TV news.

“Women reached statistical parity with men on the anchor desk in the early 1990s, and their ranks have been climbing since. The number of female anchors reached a record high last year, accounting for 57 percent of the positions in a nationwide survey conducted by the Radio and Television News Directors Association,” according to the article by the Post’s Paul Farhi.

But does “statistical parity” equal statistical power in the field? Also, one source noted that the increased coverage of so-called “women’s issues” may be a contributing factor to this trend of more women in TV news.

Hmmm