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

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.

Year of Publication: 2005