Despite rising numbers of women in the workforce and in journalism schools, the news of the day still largely reflects a male perspective, a new study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds.

The report, The Gender Gap: Women Are Still Missing as Sources for Journalists, found that men are relied on as sources in the news more than twice as often as women, and that more than three-quarters of all news stories contain male sources, while only a third contain even a single female source. Moreover, the disparity holds true across newspapers, cable, network news, and Web sites. The study also found that in every topic category, the majority of stories cited at least one male source, while the only topic category in which the number of women sources passed the 50 percent threshold was lifestyle stories. The subject in which women were least likely to be cited was foreign affairs.

To conduct the study, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research institute affiliated with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism that is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, examined sixteen newspapers in a range of circulation categories, four nightly newscasts (commercial networks and PBS), three network morning news shows, nine cable programs, and nine Web sites canvassed at four different times during the day.

To read or download the complete report (32 pages, PDF), visit: http://www.pewtrusts.org/pdf/PEJ_gender_0505.pdf.