[Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism

[Cecilia Aragon]

See http://www.eigenfactor.org/gender/ for a visualization of gender
balance of authors in JSTOR.

Thanks,
Cecilia

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Julie Cohen <jec at law.georgetown.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Biella,
>
> Not a piece but still an enlightening read: go to ssrn.com and peruse the
> lists of top authors by downloads and abstract views. (You may have to set
> up an account to see this information.) In law, 2 of the top 100 are women;
> taking it through the top 200 gets you up to 22ish (apologies but I can't
> fully decode all of the names). In top authors overall, looks like ~8ish in
> the top 100 and 14ish in the top 200; again, there may be a few more that
> I'm just not recognizing. They also do an eigenfactor column and the
> rankings do shift a bit there, but not enough to disrupt the overall
> imbalance.
>
> Best, Julie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of
> Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:54 AM
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> Subject: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted
> was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces
> that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female
> voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence
> but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love
> to see them.
>
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journalism/463023/
>
> http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-no-respect.html?_r=0
>
> All best,
> Gabriella
>
>
>
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