The New Yorker's woman problem

The dearth of female bylines should be the talk of the town.

Published November 23, 2005 5:15PM (EST)

From Miss Grace's Salon, the blog affiliated with New York's Grace Reading Series: According to resident math whiz Sara Zuiderveen, only 21 percent of the 702 articles published by the New Yorker in 2004 were written by women. Here's one way they could help fix that: Stop freaking rejecting my submissions.


By Lynn Harris

Award-winning journalist Lynn Harris is author of the comic novel "Death by Chick Lit" and co-creator of BreakupGirl.net. She also writes for the New York Times, Glamour, and many others.

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