Glass ceiling two: and audit of women and men in Southern African Newsrooms

Written by Diane Lemieux | 01 January 05

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While there are now roughly equal numbers of women and men in South African newsrooms, women, and especially black women, are still scarce in senior and top management echelons, as well as in the hard news beats. On average, women earn twenty percent less than men in newsrooms; and black women earn twenty five percent less than white men. There are however considerable differences between the nine media houses surveyed (representing over half of all newsroom employees in the country) with some having a majority women in senior management and others none at all. These are the key findings to emerge from the second phase of the Glass Ceiling Study (see letter to newsrooms at Annex A and questionnaire at Annex B). An explanation of job categories is found at Annex C. The SANEF Glass Ceiling Project team is listed at Annex D and list of respondents for this study at Annex E. Files to download:

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Year of publication	2005
External Link	http://www.polity.org.za/article.php?a_id=108378
Online	Y
Physical Resource	Y
Place of Publication	South Africa
Classification No	305.3 LEM