[lbo-talk] gender ratios

[joanna]

Of course. Katha Pollitt wrote a very good article for the Nation many 
years ago in which she observed that even when women's writing is 
publishied, it is typically only in connection with women's issues. 
Katha herself is an articulate, intelligent, excellent writer -- but I 
have seen very little writing by her published in the Nation that was 
not about women's stuff.

An unfortunate situation.

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


> <http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/4/weiss-numbers.asp>
>
> Gentlemen's Club
> By Jennifer Weiss
> Bylines in the nation's top intellectual and political magazines are 
> heavily male, as shown by these ratios (male/female), calculated using 
> the ProQuest database from October 2003 through the end of May. At 
> several magazines, women writers were occasionally shut out of entire 
> issues.
>
>     *    National Review 13/1
>     *    Foreign Affairs 9/1
>     *    The New Republic 8/1
>     *    Harper's Magazine 7/1
>     *    The Weekly Standard 7/1
>     *    The Atlantic 6/1
>     *    The New York Review of Books 6/1
>     *    The New Yorker 4/1
>     *    The Nation 3/1
>     *    National Journal 3/1
>     *    CJR 2/1
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