Yes Comment! On Piers Morgan: “What a model journalist!”
February 11, 2011 by Ms. · 2 Comments
For we editors used to making a quarterly magazine, it’s been revelatory to hear back directly–instantly!–from Ms. Blog readers in the comments section. This week you mused about gender bias in the media, schooled us with your knowledge of Piers Morgan’s resume and questioned your faith in humanity after a 14-year-old girl was flogged to death [...]
Why There’s Gender Bias in Media–and What We Can Do About It
February 10, 2011 by Margot Magowan · 7 Comments
The grassroots women’s literary group VIDA just released some frightening statistics about gender bias in publishing: The New York Review of Books has 462 male bylines to 79 female, about a 6-to-1 ratio. The New Republic has 256 men to 49 women. The Atlantic published 154 male bylines and 55 female. The New Yorker reviewed [...]
An Open Letter to The New Yorker
January 3, 2011 by Anne Hays · 16 Comments
Dear Editors of The New Yorker, I am writing to express my alarm that this is now the second issue in a row in which women have only two bylines in the Table of Contents of your print issue. The January 3rd, 2011 issue features only a (tiny) Shouts & Murmurs (Patricia Marx) and a [...]
Women We’ll Be Reading 200 Years From Now
September 1, 2010 by Donna Decker · 8 Comments
“Women I admire have gone through hell to get their work out there,” Erica Jong told us this past weekend. “I’d like to change that for you.” Despite its sale of 20 million copies worldwide, Jong’s 1973 feminist novel Fear of Flying provoked a backlash, the vestiges of which still own a sliver of Jong’s [...]
