Want more women in journalism? Get predators out of our way.

Improving diversity requires confronting the industry’s deeply rooted problems with sexism and harassment.

via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/want-more-women-in-journalism-get-predators-out-of-our-way-f6c85a1fe0e4

Photojournalism has an undeniable diversity problem. In recent years, World Press Photo contest statistics have consistently tracked women’s participation at about 15 percent. The proportion of front-page photographs on leading newspapers taken by female photographers is sometimes as low as just 9 percent, according to Women Photograph, a group launched this year to encourage equal hiring rights. Sexism is a quiet reality that is deeply ingrained in many aspects of the industry, and women continue to have to fight to be taken seriously and given opportunities.