Women in decision-making structures in the european media

Abstract

The small number of women occupying senior positions in media organisations has been a cause for concern for several decades. The article presents the main results of a research aimed to explore women’s penetration of top level management across a range of large media organisations, both public sector and privately-owned in the EU and Croatia. The project also analysed how senior women actually experience their media workplace and what kinds of gender-equality and/or women-focused policies are in place in those organisations. From the resulting data the project developed a set of indicators, also presented here, which would be adopted by the Council of the European Commission.