Tag Archive for "Gender Gap"

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Infographic: The US’s elected prosecutors are literally a bunch of white dudes

A new study offers a (rare!) but damning indictment of a criminal justice system managed and directed overwhelmingly by white men, revealing yet another gap between those with enormous power in the system and the people they are elected to represent.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Chart of the Day: Women created 37 percent of the news last year

The Women’s Media Center is out with their latest report on the gender gap in media — from the newsroom to the big screen.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Chart of the Day: Novels about men are more likely to win major literary awards

According to an analysis by author Nicola Griffith, women are more likely to win literary awards for fiction when their protagonist is a man. The more prestigious the award, the less likely the subject will be a woman.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Chart of the Day: The white dudes of New Yorker cartoons

The underrepresentation of women and people of color in media extends all the way to the cartoons tucked into the New Yorker, according to an analysis of every cartoon published in the magazine last year. The journal Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science found that about 70 percent of the characters were men and 95 percent were white.

By Mahroh Jahangiri • 9 years ago

New Favorite Tumblr: Congrats, you have an all male panel!

I work at a think tank in DC. Every time I walk into an event, I tally the number of women in the room. I can usually count them on one hand.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Watch: Women in Hollywood stand up for men in Hollywood in satirical PSA

Inspired by statistics on the gender gap in Hollywood, this sarcastic PSA from the Make It Fair Project calls for men to “have it all.”

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Latest VIDA count of gender gap in the literary world counts women of color

The fifth annual VIDA Count measuring the gender gap in the literary world is out.

This year, for the first time, an effort was made to break down the numbers by race.

The fifth annual VIDA Count measuring the gender gap in the literary world is out.

This year, for the first time, an effort was made to break down the ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

Chart of the Day: More large companies are run by men named “John” than by women

Inspired by a recent report that calculated that there are more men named John, Robert, William or James than there are women on the boards of large companies, an economist at the New York Times has applied this index to a variety of institutional contexts.

Inspired by a recent report that calculated that there are more men named John, Robert, William or James than there are women on the boards of large companies, an economist at the ...