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Chart of the Day: The gender gap in Silicon Valley

Just how stark is the gender gap in Silicon Valley? According to Obama’s former technology head honcho Catherine Bracy, reeeeeally bad. Women make just 49 cents for every dollar men make there. Via Mother Jones, here’s a chart that drives it home:

In 2010, 89 percent of California companies that got crucial seed funding were founded by men, while just 3 percent had all women founders. And the break down by race is laughable–the 1 percent of black founders doesn’t even show up in the pie. But, as we’ve learned, tech totally doesn’t have a race problem–it’s a meritocracy!

By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

Chart of the Day: White men are 31% of the population but 58% of evening cable news guests

Media Matters has a series of depressing charts showing the (lack of) gender and racial diversity on cable news shows. They analyzed 13 evening cable news shows on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC during April, though I’d imagine this sad game could be played every month of the year.

The charts that show the combined effects of the gender and racial gap are particularly revealing. White men make up only 31 percent of the population, but they represented 62 percent of guests on CNN, 60 percent on Fox, and 54 percent on MSNBC. Consequently, as the chart below shows, white women and non-white men are underrepresented, and non-white women are super underrepresented.

It is possible to buck this trend. On Chris Hayes’ ...

By Syreeta McFadden • 11 years ago

New Tumblr watch: 100 Percent Men

The 100 Percent Men Tumblr serves up a depressing sampling of “boys clubs” in areas of leadership, business, publishing, the arts, you name it. It’s a high-impact visual reminder of just how bro-tastic the world still is–and motivation to keep working to shake down the patriarchy all over the globe.

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Don’t make me a prop in your feminism

A few weeks ago I was running around the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, supporting a book I’ve been working on for the past year. The book, The Athena Doctrine, will come out on April 16, and I’m pretty excited about it.

It’s a labor of love — after months of research and travel, my partners (both men) and I have concluded that feminine thinking is crucial to successful modern leadership. We surveyed 64,000 people and traveled more than 100,000 miles around the globe, asking people to group traits such as empathy, communicativeness, intuition, patience, assertiveness, openness, and honesty as “feminine” or “masculine,” then asking which of those qualities were most important in leaders. Universally, across age, sex, and ...

A few weeks ago I was running around the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, supporting a book I’ve been working on for the past year. The book, The Athena Doctrine, will come out on April ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

Chart of the Day: The obituary gender gap

Last year, just 23 percent of the notable deaths reported by the top newspapers in the US were women. Here’s the breakdown by paper from Mother Jones:

Obit editors claim the gap will shrink in the future–since women have more opportunities to be “movers and shakers” these days. But, as Gloria Steinem says, it’s also about the kinds of the accomplishments we value. “Women are more likely to be credited with the personal than the political—and also put in one silo. Anything that only affects women is taken less seriously than anything that also affects men.” And Lesley Kinzel points out that’s a rather convenient way of letting editors off the hook for not finding the “women who maybe ...

Last year, just 23 percent of the notable deaths reported by the top newspapers in the US were women. Here’s the breakdown by paper from Mother Jones:

Obit editors claim the gap will shrink in the ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

Report: Women hold only 14.3 percent of executive positions at major companies

Today, Catalyst released their 2012 report detailing the gender gap in the leadership of the Fortune 500 companies. Here are some facts:

Women held 14.3 percent of executive officer positions. Women held 8.1 percent of top earner positions. Women held 16.6 percent of board seats. Women of color held just 3.3 percent of board seats. One-quarter of the companies had no women in executive officer positions. One-tenth of the companies had no women on their boards. Two-thirds of companies had no women of color on their boards.

And, as Bryce Covert notes, things have barely gotten any better in recent years: “2012 was the seventh consecutive year in which we haven’t seen any growth in board seats and the third year of stagnation in the C-suite.” ...

Today, Catalyst released their 2012 report detailing the gender gap in the leadership of the Fortune 500 companies. Here are some facts:

Women held 14.3 percent of executive officer positions. Women held 8.1 percent ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

Race and the gender gap: White women supported Romney by 56 to 42 percent

According to exit poll headlines, “women” helped carry Obama to victory. Indeed, women overall did favor the president over Romney by 55 percent to 44 percent. But women–who make up 53 percent of the electorate–compose a pretty large and diverse group. Slicing and dicing the data gives us a clearer picture of exactly which women carried Obama to victory. For example, as we already mentioned, single women broke for Obama by a huge margin–which made up for the fact that married women backed Romney by 7 points. (Hmm, yet another reason to get rid of the institution?)

So how’s the gender gap look when you break it down by race/ethnicity? Here’s a nice chart from David C. ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

The gender gap in presidential politics approaches an all-time high

According to Nate Silver, the gender gap in this year’s election could rival the 20-point high in the 2000 election between Bush and Gore:

Weird. Wonder if this has anything to do with that “war on women” that totally doesn’t exist.

According to Nate Silver, the gender gap in this year’s election could rival the 20-point high in the 2000 election between Bush and Gore:

Weird. Wonder if this has anything to do with ...