Sometimes a station is recruiting a minority candidate, and that would work to a white man's disadvantage. But overall, I still think white males enjoy greater networking opportunities. I've got American Indian blood, but professionally I've never put that fact on a resume. I'm a journalist first and foremost. Comments on Gender Several comments on gender suggest that men at many stations treat newswomen more as sex objects than as professionals.
Women fill quotas and are given titles, but lower pay and no authority.
We're still the object of the morning show jokes, not the joke makers. Women in positions of authority are still expected to prove themselves to be like men, i.e., listen to sexist jokes and constant suggestive talk, as if they were men in a locker room. In the field as a tall blonde, I find fellow journalists sometimes do not take me or my work seriously. It shocks people that not only am I female and attractive, but I'm intelligent too. Most station owners believe women should be feminine and protected.