Media Guardian 100

1. The Media Guardian 100 is a list which is released annually, stating the most powerful people of the Media Industry and focuses on the economic, political and cultural influence the media texts have on the people of the U.K. Panellists include:
· Peter Barron (News night editor)
· Peter Bennett Jones (chairman of Tiger Aspect Group and talent agency PBJ Management)
· Brent Hoberman (founder and executive chairman of online interiors website mydeco)
· Tessa Jowell (minister for the Olympics and London with direct responsibility for the delivery of the government's programme for the 2012 games)
· Siobhan Kenny (director of communications at publisher Harper Collins UK)
· Andrew Neil (publisher of the Barclay brothers' Press Holdings Group, owners of the Spectator, Spectator Business and Apollo magazines)
· Trevor Phillips (chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the independent statutory body created to eliminate discrimination and reduce equality)
· Chris Powell (chairman of Nesta, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, a publicly and privately funded body to encourage innovation in the UK)
· Janine Gibson (executive editor of guardian.co.uk and editor-in-chief of Media Guardian)
· Jane Martinson (editor of Media Guardian)
2. Only 18 women in the whole of the list.
3. Top ten women job list and name:
· Jay Hunt: Controller for BBC1
· Rebekah Brooks: Chief executive for news international
· Elisabeth Murdoch: Chairman and chief executive for shine group
· Helen Boaden: director at BBC1
· Dame Majorie Scardino: Chief executive for Pearson
· Tessa Ross: Controller of film and Drama at Channel 4
· Dame Gail Rebuck: Chairman and chief executive of Random house
· Roisin Donnelly: corporate marketing director and head of marketing, Procter & Gamble UK and Ireland
· Jana Bennett: director of vision for the BBC
· Cilla Snowball: chairman and chief executive, AMV Group; chairman, AMV BBDO
4. 18% of the 100 are Women.
5. Clearly the status quo is stuck to, the men who are supposed to be dominant are, with a mammoth 82% of the 100 being men. There are no truthful answers to why women are not so politically influential, however the only thing that could justify this is that women are of the subordinate group, and therefore, though only 18% are female, the little percentage is now a norm. Or the other reason can be that the guys have come up with better ideas to become influential.