{"id":1335,"date":"2008-11-13T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2008-11-13T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T12:24:23","slug":"huffington-post-mutes-womens-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/11\/13\/huffington-post-mutes-womens-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post Mutes Women&#8217;s Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:Edo_H4Yt-NpRMM:http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/fishbowlLA\/original\/pshaw.png\" alt=\"\" \/>So sayeth Jessica Wakeman, a former associate blog editor at the Huffington Post.  And she should know.<\/p>\n<p>The stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The site highlights 13 &#8220;featured blog posts&#8221; 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Of the 89 times bylines were checked during the study, not once did the number of women&#8217;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&#8217;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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow.\u00c2\u00a0 GO Jessica Wakeman.\u00c2\u00a0 Read the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=21&amp;extra_issue_id=230\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sayeth Jessica Wakeman, a former associate blog editor at the Huffington Post. And she should know. The stats: The site highlights 13 &#8220;featured blog posts&#8221; 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.* [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21195,129],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging-life","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}