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(It’s worth noting, as we did last year, that the UN Index is not without its critics; for example, it includes as inputs numbers, like maternal mortality rates, that are deeply intertwined with a country’s relative wealth, not just its gender standards.) The study surveyed the top 10 TV, radio, print, and online news outlets in each country, totaling about 240, though it doesn’t disclose the names of the news organizations included or the editors. Just 22% of the 180 top editors across the 240 outlets studied are women even though 40% of journalists in the 12 countries are women. There was no change among the 10 countries that were studied last year, meaning that 23% of top editors in the previous sampling were women. In every country except South Africa, the majority of top editors are men. In Japan, no outlet included in the study has a female editor. ....