Guardian 100

What is the Guardian 100 and who are the panellists that create it?


The Guardian 100 is the Guardians guide to the most powerful people in the industry. Candidates are judged on three things; their cultural, economic and political influence in the UK. The list was takes in all sectors of the media, including broadcasting, publishing, new media, advertising, marketing and PR. The candidates are judged by ten panellists, they consist of:

Peter Barron

Peter Bennett-Jones

Brent Hoberman

Tessa Jowell

Siobhan Kenny

Andrew Neil

Trevor Phillips

Chris Powell

Janine Gibson

Jane Martinson

How many women are in the top 100?

The amount of women in the Guardian 100 is very small compared to the amount of men. Their are 84 men in the top 100 and their are 16 women.

What companies do these women work for and in what roles?

The companies that these women work for consist of; BBC, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Grazia, Vogue, Kudos Productions, Sunday Telegraph, Shine, Pearson, ITV, Trinity Mirror, Channel Five, The Sun.

The jobs that these women possess consist of; Advertising; Chief executive; Chairman; Director; Controller publishing; Controller of Film & Drama; Editor- publishing; Head of E4, Commissioning Editor Responsible for Big Brother; Corporate Marketing Director and Head of Marketing.

What percentage of the 100 is women?

There are 16% of women in the top 100.

How would you assess the balance of power in this list and why do you think it is this way?

The balance of power shown in this list, is that men are still in the bigger jobs, as they are chairman's and owners of their associations. Moreover, this connotes that today, even though, women are considered equal to men, we may be in a patriarchal society, due to the amount of men being in higher jobs and women being in less bigger jobs.