Gross is executive director of the D.C.-based International Women’s Media Foundation, which is holding a conference next month to release and discuss a report on the status of women in media. Why did the foundation conduct the study?

That study was commissioned because there was no comprehensive analysis or picture of how women fit into the news operation. There’s quite a bit done on women as subjects of coverage, but not about women as workers. What opportunities for advancement do they have? Do they occupy upper levels and how many? The only representative study along these lines was done in the 1990s.

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