Our friends over at the Op-Ed Project have just released new data highlighting the results of their Byline Survey to get a sense of who is getting heard in public discourse.

Their findings shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to those who have been paying attention.  People like our very own Courtney Martin and Ann Friedman have been calling out the “woman problem” in our nation’s op-ed pages, citing cringe-worthy stats showing that women make up only 24.4 percent of the columnists at eight major syndicates, a number that’s barely moved since 1999, when it stood at 23.7 percent.  That is utterly jaw-dropping, and certainly not reflective of the countless intelligent and passionately opinionated women writers I ...