Jen Weiss Asks: Where are the Women in Journalism?

My j-school classmate, totally r0x0r piano player and songwriter, and all-around kickass journo Jennifer Weiss writes in the latest issue of CJR about a dirty secret of journalism — where are the women?

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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