Girl With Pen links to an item about a scholar who surveyed the gender breakdown of bylines in The New Yorker‘s “Shouts and Murmurs” column. Ladies, the news is not good (nor, given The New Yorker‘s track record in such matters, is it very surprising): The most recent contribution by a woman ran in 2004.
GWP says, “Love that it was an academic who did the calculations. Hate that it’s true. Wonder if, in addition to other (ahem) factors, women are submitting in smaller numbers, as they do when it comes to op-eds?” She’s also looking for a few more good scholar-bloggers who happen to be women.
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