Women and Journalism: U.S. Perspectives

In her 2010 Niemen Reports essay, the late pioneering journalist Kay Mills observed that “in 2009, women were 34.8 per cent of newsroom supervisors and 37 percent of newsroom employees, and those figures are down slightly in each category from the previous year. In 1971, 22 percent of daily newspaper journalists were women. This doesn’t seem like enough progress to have made in nearly four decades, especially at a time when there are far fewer newsroom jobs.” Read Kay’s essay and the stories American women journalists wrote for Nieman Reports a decade ago.

Women and Journalism: U.S. Perspectives
Introduction
By Melissa Ludtke, Editor
A Pioneering Generation Marked the Path For Women Journalists (1 comment)
Today, women’s roles and numbers have increased but some key issues remain unresolved.
By Christy C. Bulkeley
The Value of Women Journalists
A journalist urges others to use their reporting skills to document gender discrepancies in their newsrooms.
By Susan E. Reed
‘The Girls in the Van’
What happened when a lot of women journalists reported on Hillary Clinton’s campaign?
By Beth J. Harpaz
Women Journalists See Progress, But Not Nearly Enough
‘The shortage of women editors reverberates through the ranks.’
By Jodi Enda
Redefining the ‘Private Lives’ of Public Officials (1 comment)
Women journalists have played a major role in this changing coverage.
By Florence George Graves
An Internet News Service Reports News and Views of Women
For Women’s Enews, the challenge is to be able to finance the telling of these stories.
By Rita Henley Jensen
Women Journalists Spurred Coverage of Children and Families
‘…I no longer had to approach my work as though I didn’t have children.’
By Jane Daugherty