NPR Asks Self: “Where Are All the Women?”
Big-ups to NPR for this piece today, in which the org’s ombudsman (who is actually an ombudswoman) asks, Where Are All the Women Sources? NPR compiled a list of regular commentators over the past 15 months, who are not NPR employees but paid to appear on air, and found that only 26 percent of the 3,379 voices were female. Ombudsman Alicia Shepard writes:
NPR is often regarded — and certainly regards itself — as a leader in the diversity of voices and opinions it puts on air.
But when it comes to female voices from outside NPR, the network is not as diverse on air as it would like to think. NPR needs to try harder to find more female sources and commentators.
