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Study: Huffington Post Mutes Women's Voices
New media, same gender imbalance, according to a Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting study. Here's the summary from Portfolio magazine:
You might expect that someone like Arianna Huffington, who has incorporated female empowerment as a big part of her shtick (at least since the days when she made her name as an anti-feminist author) would make sure that men don't dominate the discourse on her top-ranking website.
But no. A study for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, conducted by former Huffington Post staffer Jessica Wakeman, shows otherwise. (Disclosure: Wakeman is a former colleague of mine.) The study looked at which of the site's hundreds of daily posts were selected for the 13 featured spots on the homepage that receive the most viewership over a two-month period from early July to early September. Of the 1,125 posts featured during that span, only 23 percent were written by women.
Subtracting the featured posts by Arriana Huffington herself, just 19 percent of the featured posts were written by women. While HuffPo may allow more female voices, they primarily promote the male voices into the featured spots. Should any of us be surprised?
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and as markos also found out, the money online is with the blogger boyz. The boyz way out number the girls online in the twenty something demographic (my guess).
Don't Blame Me! - I Voted for Hillary
McGovern - Carter - Mondale - Dukakis - Clinton - Gore - Kerry - McCain
Then the next party, or candidate, can do an end-run around that demographic and grab the remaining voting blocks. Let the bloggers self-destruct in an orgy of vile rudeness?
Will be where the fastest online population growth will occur (since the immature boy demographic is already overrepresented)
Republican. One should not be surprised that old habits die hard with either one of them. Marginalizing women is an old Republican habit. So is marrying rich, which Arianna also did. Got a bundle in the divorce, from what I heard. If she is marginalizing women, it's not because she needs the money, it's because she wants to. Of course, the margins she wants to restrict women to don't apply to her. She is the Phyllis Schafly of the new millenium...do what I say is the right thing for women, never mind what I have done or who I have used to get into my present position of omniscience. Remember Schafly?? Told women they belonged at home with the kids and waiting on their husbands while she was out of the house getting a law degree and going into politics. The funny thing was that the woman who decried the "Mr. Mom" trend in families had one of the very first Mr. Moms in her family. So. never mind Arianna, she is irrelevent. Has been for decades. She just won't shut up and go a way.
then it's natural for women at the top to do little to keep the others from rising. Sad.
denigration of 'women's issues' or at least neglect of them, since that's the dominant paradigm.
I haven't thoroughly researched the 30% solution yet but have been speculating on why things change when the magic number is reached, regardless of the political persuasions of the women at hand.
I think part of it is that when 30% is reached, even idiotic women like, say, Pelosi, feel comfortable bringing up concerns that affect women (or have been characterized as women's issues -- you know, it drives me crazy that 'family' issues are considered women's issues, as if only women have children or families.) If the issues are never raised in the first place, or raised then dismissed as unimportant, then they definitely won't be addressed.
when some minority families move in, everybody's happy because it feels diverse. But when it goes above a certain threshold, apparently white families start fleeing again. Maybe it's the same with women.