The Gender Report provides a weekly round-up of links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links below are to noteworthy articles on topics related to women in journalism and the media during the past week. Articles included in this feature do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gender Report or its writers. View past week’s round-ups here.
VIDA: The 2011 count
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released its 2011 count of male and female bylines at top magazines, showing a disparity in the number of female book reviewers and books by women that are reviewed compared to men. Web writers and journalists alike took notice of this release. Here are just a few of the related write-ups and responses:
–Gender bias in books journalism remains acute, research shows (The Guardian)
–Where in the world are women? Still not being published or reviewed, says VIDA (New York Daily News)
–America’s Top Magazines: Still Not Hiring Women (Think Progress)
–Half of MoJo’s Bylines Are Women’s (Mother Jones)
–Thought Leadership by Gender, as Reflected in Bylines (by Ann Friedman)
–Institutional sexism of books world needs new girls’ network (by Jennifer Weiner)
–Do Women Count? (by E.J. Graff)
–Ten Women Major Magazines Should Be Commissioning (by Alyssa Rosenberg)
General interest links
–Broadcasters urged to increase numbers of female experts on air (Women’s Views on News)
–Young Woman in Yemen Among New Breed of Citizen Journalists (Voice of America)
–UNL journalism project on Native women gets $150K boost (Lincoln Journal Star)
–Electoral Advertising is a Women’s Media Policy Nightmare(Women’s Media Center)
–Germany’s top female journalists call for women quotas in media (The Guardian)
–Shadid’s wife [also a journalist] confesses being ‘mad’ at journalism (Washington Post)
–French journalist tells of escape from Homs (Reuters) – Regarding Edith Bouvier
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