Ever since journalism began, men have dominated the field. It used to be forbidden for women to attempt to enter journalism. Now, however, discrimination against females in journalism has lessened, but inequalities still exist. As a female beginning her quest to become a journalist, I must realistically look at who becomes successful and all aspects of what goes on in this line of work.

Women of minority and women in other countries often face even lager challenges trying to break into journalism than that of women who live in the United States and Canada. I want to explore why it is easier for males to get into the field of journalism, why they are more likely to be prom

Moral reasons may go into why more women are not journalists. "You know why more women aren't anchors?" he says. "Because honest to God, their values are different. To get these jobs, you have to drive for them, not for days but for years. And men don't mind up giving up a marriage for that-in fact, most of us did," says Craig Oliver a broadcast journalist (McElvoy 18). Women are not as easy to give up a family for their career. Take the case of Meredith Viera. CBS's 60 Minutes made her choose between having a family and a job. She chose her family and now is a co-host on Barbara Walters' hit morning talk show The View. So, women can have a high profile job in journalism and still have a family too (Walters).

I have learned through my study about women in the workforce and in journalism that men have the upper hand in most every instance, but it is not impossible at all for women to succeed. I discovered that minority women in media and foreign women in journalism face huge obstacles and are much worse off than women in America. I think that women need to take the initiative to keep striving for higher positions and not take the discrimination being thrown at them by men. Women are the only ones who will make a change for themselves in journalism.

The number of women working has grown from 5.3 million in 1900, to 18.4 million in 1950 and to 63 million in 1997. In the United States, 99 out of every 100 women will work for pay at some point in their lives, but the pay usually is not equal to that of a man wages. In 1996, women who worked full time, year round, earned 74 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Over a lifetime of work, the average 25 year-old woman who works full time, year round, until she retires at 65 will earn $523,000 less than the average man who works for the same number of years (AFL-CIO).

For women in the workplace there are solutions becoming available. Now, there are equal opportunity laws that prohibit discrimination against women, but for women working in the media solutions are hard to figure out. This is a problem that is getting better, but many people are not concerned with what is happening to women journalists. A group that is trying to support women is called Journalism and Women's Supposium or JAWS. JAWS is an organization of "Pulitzer Prize wi

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