Friday, February 25, 2011

Why women don’t contribute to opinion pages as often as men & what we can do about it

Women have made the case for years that there aren’t enough female voices in the opinion pages. The root of the problem, though, isn’t so much that news organizations aren’t featuring female contributors; it’s that they aren’t contributing in the first place. The reasons they cite are endless, says Catherine Orenstein, founder of the Op-Ed Project, which is designed to enrich public conversation by expanding the range of voices we hear, and especially by increasing the number of women who participate. I’m not an expert in anything. You should really ask another person. I don’t want to be pretentious or...

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