Counting women in bylines and panels
Dec. 4th, 2011 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/04/why-british-public-life-dominated-men
Someone did counting of people writing and presenting news and current affairs programs. The papers or shows that get up to 1/3 women are doing well. 1/5 is more likely. And it is frequently just the one woman on her own. But some shows manage to be 100% male still. They did a lot more counting in a lot more places and talked to the gatekeepers and heard some reasons. Like, that it's from subconscious lazy, inviting people they already heard of, who just happen to be disproportionately men. Also mentions people of color and attempts to do counting on twitter with the hashtag "diversity audit", though I'm not on twitter and can't get that to work. Is a good long article.
Someone did counting of people writing and presenting news and current affairs programs. The papers or shows that get up to 1/3 women are doing well. 1/5 is more likely. And it is frequently just the one woman on her own. But some shows manage to be 100% male still. They did a lot more counting in a lot more places and talked to the gatekeepers and heard some reasons. Like, that it's from subconscious lazy, inviting people they already heard of, who just happen to be disproportionately men. Also mentions people of color and attempts to do counting on twitter with the hashtag "diversity audit", though I'm not on twitter and can't get that to work. Is a good long article.