Boys Will Hire Boys: The Media Is Male and Getting Maler

[petronius]

5. Depressing numbers, and it's interesting to focus on the off-air/behind-

the-scenes employment; I suspect a lot of people don't immediately think of that part of the industry.

I'm a bit confused by the discussion on radio, however - the report says:

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women comprised 29.2 percent of the total
radio news workforce, 18.1 percent of radio news directors, and 18.3 percent of radio
general managers in 2011. The RTDNA reports that women represented 22.0 percent of
the local radio news force in 2011. Women comprised 10.7 percent of radio news directors,
a steep decrease reflecting roughly one-half to one-third of the proportions reported
between 2004 and 2010.

That looks like two different estimates (BLS and RTDNA) for 2011 employment, not a decline from 2010 to 2011. Unless the "2011" in the BLS sentence is a typo, or perhaps "total radio" and "local radio" are different...