So sayeth Jessica Wakeman, a former associate blog editor at the Huffington Post. And she should know.
The stats:
- The site highlights 13 “featured blog posts” on the home page at a time, and that selection is updated regularly. Extra! recorded those featured bylines twice every weekday for nine weeks and coded them by gender.* During the study period (7/7/08-9/5/08), only 255 of 1,125 bylines-23 percent-belonged to women.
- Of the 89 times bylines were checked during the study, not once did the number of women’s bylines equal those belonging to men. Only eight times did women account for more than a third of all bylines. And Arianna Huffington, appearing 57 times, accounted for more than a fifth of all women’s bylines; 45 of those occupied the most visible top post. Only once, in fact, did a woman other than Arianna Huffington get her byline in the most visible top slot-Post editor-at-large Nora Ephron
Wow. GO Jessica Wakeman. Read the full article, here.
Comments
anniegirl1138 — November 13, 2008
This stuff is never surprising. Why we would assume that because the site belongs to a woman that she would impose equality?
Deborah Siegel — November 14, 2008
True true...I admire Arianna, want her to be a women's advocate, and so I find it disappointing.
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