The Most Influential Women in Radio group (MIW's) released its annual Gender Analysis Summary showing that opportunities for women in radio are still far below the management opportunities for men.
The data comes from the MIW annual gender composition analysis based on June 2002 information provided to them by M Street publications. Under 15% of all station General Managers in the top 100
markets are female; the same as last year, said Joan Gerberding, President of Nassau Media Partners and spokesperson for the MIW group. The percentage of stations with female General Sales Managers
has gone down from 30% to 20% of broadcast management as much as they should be. "We have staffed panels, spoken at almost every industry event since 1999, we have a successful ongoing MIW Group
Mentoring Program and we're individually and as a group practicing what we preach." said Gerberding. "So we are not just advocating improvement in the number of women in management positions, we're
actively working to make it happen. But the status quo prevails."
