ABSTRACT
Given current patterns of media ownership in the UK, women’s near invisibility in the controlling positions of our national press should come as no surprise. Our newspapers are run like old boys’ clubs, and the recent successes of Wendy Henry (ex-editor of the People) and Eve Pollard (editor of the Mail on Sunday) have done nothing to change the situation. They wanted the jobs; they therefore played by the rules in order to get them. The rules were not changed to facilitate the progress of other female journalists after them. Long hours, drinks with the boys and a disregard for childcare (no workplace nurseries here) remain the norm.
