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At first glance, one may see numbers of female correspondents and news anchors on public television, read letters from female editors of fashion magazines, or read columns in newspapers written by famous female faces. If one looks farther, however, at statistics and studies, we find that women are not represented equally in the field of journalism at all. In a world that consists half of women, ratios in the workplace should reflect the gender percentages, especially in the media. In the United States, while women comprise about half of the professional workforce, only 33% of journalists are of the latter sex. Although their numbers are steadily increasing, women in the field of journalism are under represented (Jurkowitz).
Any writer's role is to inform. Journalists must bring knowledge to societies of a broad range of subjects, channeling every group and each gender. In some circumstances, women are better represents of subjects because of their natural persona. A woman could......

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