This site purports to cover issues related to women in publishing. This will no doubt come as a surprise to those of you who have been enjoying the lighthearted snapshots of bags of candy.

However, today we have a bona fide on-topic link. A recent study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center takes a look at how women are faring at the top of communications organizations, including publishing companies, e-companies, magazine publishers, and communications-related industry organizations.

The results are pretty dismal, as usual.

There continues to be a dearth of women in executive suites and corporate boardrooms of communications and e-commerce companies. With a few exceptions, we have not moved beyond tokenism in the number of women in top leadership positions or serving on the boards of communications companies.

Not really a suprise.

And yet....

I can't find the statistics now, but when I met with an alumni director from my old school last spring, I was impressed by how many women were graduating from the program these days.

You can see for yourself here how many women are getting journalism scholarships.

According to this study (dated 2000?) women make up a majority of journalism students at schools nationwide.

In the autumn of 2000, 65 percent of the students enrolled in journalism and mass communication master's degree programs were women, and 54 percent of the students enrolled in doctoral programs in journalism and mass communication programs were women.

And of the 2892 people who responded to this 2001 survey of journalism graduates, 73% were women.

We're out there, guys.

Journalism is not a boy's club any more, or it won't be for long, anyway.