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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 Syreeta McFadden • 11 years ago

VIDA’s 2012 Count shows the literary gender byline gap isn’t improving

I’m off to Boston for the annual Association of Writing Programs (AWP) Conference this week, where +/- 10k writers, editors, agents, publishers descend on the city and nerd out over craft, and geek out and build friendships with their favorite writers and editors. I anticipate a good piece of the talk around the conference will center around Monday’s release of VIDA’s 2012 Count report, which scrutinizes thought leader publication’s ratio of women writers and reviewers, as well as reviews of books written by women. Since 2010, VIDA (Women In Literary Arts) has done the good and dirty work of quantifying the void in women’s representation in publishing. This year’s report shows a backslide.

The biggest takeaway ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 12 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 Chloe Angyal • 12 years ago

Guest post: The gender byline gap in business writing

This is a guest post by Doreen Bloch, a young entrepreneur and author. Doreen is the author of the new book, The Coolest Startups in America, and the CEO and Founder of Poshly Inc. She is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council and is a regular contributor to Under30CEO.

I visited the famed bookstore The Strand at Union Square for the first time in June 2010, when I moved to New York City after college graduation. I made my way downstairs to the Business book section – my favorite in any bookstore – and it was then and there that the realization struck that there are very few women writers among these stacks. I ...

This is a guest post by Doreen Bloch, a young entrepreneur and author. Doreen is the author of the new book, The Coolest Startups in America, and the CEO and Founder of Poshly ...