--- title: Gender Equality Statistics in Media, Government, Museums description: Find out what four separate studies showed about the gender gap in different industries. canonical: https://time.com/4712368/women-gender-gap-industries-studies/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-24T17:34:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:17.302Z og:title: This Week Was One Big ‘Still Not Equal!' 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Here’s what the numbers show. **Media:** The [report](http://wmc.3cdn.net/dcdb0bcb4b0283f501%5Fmlbres23x.pdf), conducted by the [Women’s Media Center](http://www.womensmediacenter.com/), analyzed 24,117 pieces of content produced between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30, 2016 at 20 news organizations and found that men produced 62.3% of the content. The report also found that the number of women in broadcast media, which had a higher gender gap than newspapers, online media and wire services, actually decreased since [Women Media Center’s previous analysis](http://wmc.3cdn.net/83bf6082a319460eb1%5Fhsrm680x2.pdf). Read more about the report [here](http://motto.time.com/4710910/women-media-broadcast-report/). **Government and business:** The Pew Research Center released [new data](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/despite-gains-women-remain-underrepresented-among-u-s-political-and-business-leaders/?utm%5Fcontent=buffere9c23&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=buffer) that showed women only constitute 19.4% of U.S. Congress and 24.8% of state legislatures. The data also showed that further, only 27 women run Fortune 500 companies, a slight increase from last year. Read more about the data [here](http://motto.time.com/4711005/women-underrepresented-business-political-leadership-roles/). **Museums:** A [study](https://aamd.org/our-members/from-the-field/gender-gap-report-2017) conducted by the [Association of Art Museum Directors](https://www.aamd.org/) found that only one woman holds the top title at the largest 13 museums in the United States. The report isn’t all bad news: the industry as a whole is close to achieving gender parity with women leading 48% of all art museums. But female museum directors at institutions with budgets over $15 million make 25 cents less on every dollar than their male counterparts. Read more about the report [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/arts/design/gender-gap-persists-at-largest-museums.html?%5Fr=1). **Academia:** A _Chronicle of Higher Education_ [survey](http://www.chronicle.com/article/Gender-Pay-Gap-Persists-Across/239553?cid=wcontentlist%5F6%5Flisttop), which looked at 4,500 colleges across the country, found that female professors brought home about $18,200 less than men who held the same posts. That pay gap has actually widened by $500 since 2014\. 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