Women still vastly underrepresented in Australian media, report says

Study from Women in Media finds men still dominate newsrooms and gender parity will not be achieved for at least a decade

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Women in media are still vastly underrepresented as men continue to dominate newsrooms across Australia, according to the Women in Media gender scorecard, released on Monday. Men account for 70% of quoted sources and 66% of experts in all news stories while female voices are still taking a backseat, the report says.

Most byline authors are also men, particularly when it comes to prolific areas of the media such as sport, which has 82% male authors and a measly 18% women. When it comes to covering politics, which is also a male-dominated industry, most coverage and storytelling is by men.

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