The women in the newsroom tend to be younger and more optimistic about their advancement prospects than their male colleagues. They are also represented in newsroom management to nearly the same degree as men. More than one-fourth of the women in the survey are 30 or younger, compared with 15 percent of the men. The only other age group in which a difference stands out is the over-50s, where only 22 percent are women. Women are more likely to be single than men, and there are differences between the sexes in the family income structure.
Career paths tend to differ as well.
While this may be largely a function of the age difference, women are more likely than men to be working at their first paper, and men are more likely than women to have worked at several papers previously. Likewise, women are more likely to have had newspaper internships during college. This again is a likely function of the age difference, as internships are more common today than in previous decades. Women generally have more successful academic backgrounds than men. Women are more likely to report A averages in college, while men are more likely to report C averages.