Majorities of both men and women feel that women are treated fairly, but 27 percent of the women believe that women are treated unfairly. Only 11 percent of the men would agree. A 61 percent majority of men feel their paper has a strong commitment to gender diversity, but only 37 percent of the women agree. Women are optimistic about career advancement, but not advancement all the way to the top. Men are more likely than women to choose ''publisher'' as their career destination.
Women aspire generally to other positions in the newsroom.
For men and women alike, the two biggest obstacles to advancement tend to be competition for the position and lack of experience - although women are more likely than men to cite lack of experience. This again is a function of the age differential between genders. Like men, most women intend to stay in newspapering until they are in their 50s or 60s. In many other respects, there is no significant gender gap. Men and women respond the same way on many questions - job satisfaction, reasons for ever leaving the business, the future of newspapers, evaluations of their paper's quality and budget, evaluations of managers and newsroom needs, attitudes on journalism's role in the community, the various aspects of civic journalism, and the ethics of journalists' involvement in community organizations.