Annual count of women’s bylines shows little progress | Poynter.
VIDA Women in Literary Arts has released their annual count of women’s bylines. The New Yorker is just one of many publications that they surveyed that continued to show a preference for men’s bylines.
VIDA’s website has charts on the byline breakdown on a number of publications, including The Atlantic, The New Republic, Harper’s, Boston Review and more.
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Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
Eighteen months into my job as the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, a foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George Kennan, I found myself in New York, at the United Nations’ annual assemblage of every foreign minister and head of state in the world. On a Wednesday evening, President and Mrs. Obama hosted a glamorous reception at the American Museum of Natural History. I sipped champagne, greeted foreign dignitaries, and mingled. But I could not stop thinking about my 14-year-old son, who had started eighth grade three weeks earlier and was already resuming what had become his pattern of skipping homework, disrupting classes, failing math, and tuning out any adult who tried to reach him. […]
Women of my generation have clung to the feminist credo we were raised with, even as our ranks have been steadily thinned by unresolvable tensions between family and career, because we are determined not to drop the flag for the next generation. But when many members of the younger generation have stopped listening, on the grounds that glibly repeating “you can have it all” is simply airbrushing reality, it is time to talk.
I still strongly believe that women can “have it all” (and that men can too). I believe that we can “have it all at the same time.” But not today, not with the way America’s economy and society are currently structured. My experiences over the past three years have forced me to confront a number of uncomfortable facts that need to be widely acknowledged—and quickly changed.
Read more. [Image: Phillip Toledano]
It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, writes Anne-Marie Slaughter: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5z2th9U7d1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
Eighteen months into my job as the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, a foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George Kennan, I found myself in New York, at the United Nations’ annual assemblage of every foreign minister and head of state in the world. On a Wednesday evening, President and Mrs. Obama hosted a glamorous reception at the American Museum of Natural History. I sipped champagne, greeted foreign dignitaries, and mingled. But I could not stop thinking about my 14-year-old son, who had started eighth grade three weeks earlier and was already resuming what had become his pattern of skipping homework, disrupting classes, failing math, and tuning out any adult who tried to reach him. […]
Women of my generation have clung to the feminist credo we were raised with, even as our ranks have been steadily thinned by unresolvable tensions between family and career, because we are determined not to drop the flag for the next generation. But when many members of the younger generation have stopped listening, on the grounds that glibly repeating “you can have it all” is simply airbrushing reality, it is time to talk.
I still strongly believe that women can “have it all” (and that men can too). I believe that we can “have it all at the same time.” But not today, not with the way America’s economy and society are currently structured. My experiences over the past three years have forced me to confront a number of uncomfortable facts that need to be widely acknowledged—and quickly changed.
Read more. [Image: Phillip Toledano]
It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, writes Anne-Marie Slaughter: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.
— On today’s Fresh Air, Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter details the balancing act that women face when holding high-powered positions and raising children at the same time. She also details what needs to change both in workplaces and in society to create equal opportunities for all working women. (via nprfreshair)
(via nprfreshair)
— The Agonizing Ecstasies of Male Contraception, by Eleanor Ray, The Hairpin April 12, 2012
I don’t mean that women are to blame for the business model that finances most women’s content. That was devised by men, and it usually goes something like this: In order to survive, women’s publications need to attract certain advertisers, the kind who buy ads alongside apolitical content that often suggests ways that women might improve themselves. Probably more often than anyone wants to admit, the editorial mission adjusts to accommodate that content. As a result, the abiding goal of some women’s publications can feel not so different from that of early 20th century ladies magazines: to train women’s minds on a limited set of approved interests and ambitions.
Now, how do we change this?
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