A latest report released by the US-based Women's Media Center revealed that the status of women in news and entertainment industry is still miserable.

Charlotte Alter in Time Magazine argues that there has been very less progress towards gender parity in most areas such as sports journalism.

On the basis of the report, women have lost ground, with 7% fewer women reporting on sports than last year.

Drawing some more details from the report, Alter said the news industry so far has not achieved anything that resembles gender equality. She said that there are only 32% women in evening broadcast news, and write 37% of print news stories.

Men still dominate the 'hard news', with almost 67% of men handling the criminal justice news, 65% of domestic political stories, 64% of world politics and 63% of science coverage.

As far as sports are concerned, only 10% of coverage is produced by women. The report highlighted that education and lifestyle were the only areas where they found real parity.

The report showed that opinions still are male-dominating as newspaper editorial boards, on average, comprise seven men and four women. Commentators on Sunday morning talk-shows are more than 70% male, it showed.

When seen in the field of acting, women accounted for only 12% of on-screen protagonist in 2014, and just 30% of characters with speaking parts.

Julie Burton, president of Women's Media Center, said, "This new report shows us who matters and what is important to media and clearly, as of right now, it is not women".