How many men and women are reporting on the Panama Papers case?

My numbers are far from being absolute, but they give an idea of the feminine share in journalism

You can easily find it on the news: The Panama Papers case involves 11,5 million documents, 109 media outlets and 376 journalists in 76 countries. This work has been organized for about a year with the help of The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which includes several partners around the globe.

Although the media is talking constantly about the 376 journalists who processed this incredible amount of information and extracted news from it, I couldn't find the names of all those people. The ICIJ website reveals less than 200 of them, and depending on the way you look at it, the list varies between 195 and 196. It can, of course, be my fault, since the difference is so small, but I spent some time checking on it and my figures differed every single time.

Well, I looked into the list ordered by country — the one with supposedly 196 people. I checked it name by name and jotted down how many of them were men and women. Here is what I've found:

1. There are 146 men and 50 women among the journalists;
2. 10 of the 69 countries are represented exclusively by women: Azerbaijan, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Namibia, Paraguay, Taiwan;
3. In 7 areas the number of men and women are the same: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Finland, Guatemala, Spain;
4. The Philippines is the only country with both genders where women are the majority (2 to 1);
5. The United States is the country with most female journalists — there are 5 there. But the US is also the country with more journalists anyway, with 19 in total (the second biggest is Britain, with 9 men and no women).

Again: these numbers are far from being absolute, but they give an idea of the feminine share in journalism. I don't know if it is possible to get the whole figure, but I am guessing that they would show something similar.

I took all the information from the ICIJ website. The list of journalists by country, which I used the most, is here, and the alphabetical one is here. And finally here is a doc on Google Sheets with the figures separated.

Leonardo Pereira is a Brazilian journalist located in Dublin. He is a senior writer and proofreader at Olhar Digital and can be found on the Internet as @leeopereira.