Gender diversity at The New York Times has made a steady decline with women highly underrepresented at the highest tiers of power, according to the paper’s public editor, Liz Spayd.
“Women have skidded down the power structure since Jill Abramson was dismissed as executive editor three years ago, with fewer females leading big news departments and fewer coming up the pipeline,” Spayd wrote in an article on Saturday. “Thus, fewer women decide what big stories are assigned, what broad coverage priorities are set, and what a re-envisioned Times should look like.”
Although women have been added to masthead in recent weeks as news editors, as well as heads of the Washington bureau, the arts and culture coverage, the book, photo and video desks, men hold the top one and two spots in the chain of command with Dean Baquet as executive editor and Joseph Kahn as the recently named managing editor.