Graduate destinations: analysis

Graduate destinations: analysis

Following the publication of Kira Cochrane's report Why is British public life dominated by men? in The Guardian, and journalism.co.uk's subsequent article Guardian study finds just 22.6% of journalists are female, we posted this Tweet:

Interesting: 68% of our students in last 5 years female. MT @journalismnews Guardian study: 22.6% of journalists female http://t.co/NOsTtxRw 

As this Tweet generated some interest, we decided to take a snapshot of our graduates, using data from our alumni magazine XCity, to consider the question: does a higher proportion of female students at City's Journalism Department translate into a higher proportion of female journalists?

We have posted a few highlights here, but you can download the figures in the Google Doc below and come up with some conclusions of your own.

Please note: this is a rudimentary snapshot, not an in-depth piece of research. We hope to look at this issue in more detail early next year.

Results

The group we looked at were MA Journalism graduates between 2006 and 2008 inclusive:

How many of our graduate journalists are female?

Of the 406 graduates working in journalism:

...illustrating almost equal proportions of female MA students and female graduate journalists.

In which fields are our female/male journalism graduates more dominant?

Overall, how many of our graduates work in journalism?

Of the 452 graduates we have data for:

Table of data

See the data in a Google Doc

(See below table for key)

- - Nat
news		 Reg
news		 Int
news		 News/ data wires Nat b'cast Reg b'cast Int b'cast Mag Web Free PR Pub Edu Non NGO
Newspaper Journalism Male 21 5 4 11 2 - - 7 2 3 1 1 1 - -
Female 15 6 3 8 3 - 1 11 8 1 1 - 2 - -
Magazine Journalism Male 6 - - - - - - 15 6 5 2 - - 1 1
Female 7 3 2 - 2 2 - 35 8 8 6 1 1 - 2
Broadcast Journalism Male - - - 1 11 9 2 - 2 3 1 - 1 - -
Female - - - 1 19 23 5 - 1 8 2 - 1 1 2
Television Journalism Male 1 - - 2 7 3 3 - - 2 1 - - - -
Female - - - 2 7 7 4 - 1 3 - - - 1 -
International Journalism Male 1 - 6 5 2 - 3 3 - 4 1 - 1 - -
Female 1 - 4 7 - - 18 6 4 5 8 2 3 - 1

Key