Women Scarcer on Evening News

Katie Couric 'made history' for becoming the first female to anchor the evening news when women in other countries are prime ministers and presidents. So far, she hasn't made a difference:

B&C Contributing Editor Andrew Tyndall analyzed the first six weeks of Katie Couric's tenure atop the CBS Evening News and found that woman have gotten fewer assignments.

When former Today host Katie Couric arrived at the anchor chair of the CBS Evening News just six weeks ago, much was made of the fact that she--unlike Barbara Walters, Connie Chung and Elizabeth Vargas before her--was the first solo female nightly-news anchor. But that has not translated to a more female-centric Evening News, at least on the correspondent side.

In fact, since Couric's arrival, women have received 40% fewer assignments than they did under her predecessor, Bob Schieffer. Men, meanwhile, have seen no cutback in their workload.