Comments on: The Economist’s women and men

By: Guns, Fishing, and Football « Phoggy Days, Phoggy Nights

Guns, Fishing, and Football « Phoggy Days, Phoggy Nights — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:45:32 +0000

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By: andreaskluth

andreaskluth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:04:07 +0000

Perhaps we’re converging on a special number of 23%. Once the sample is large enough, we might split it by (the women’s) age and other factors.

Various hypotheses are germinating in my head, but I’ve taken your mantra to heart and am, so far, simply trying to find out ‘what is’, not why it is.

By: andreaskluth

andreaskluth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:02:28 +0000

I have theories and may offer them, but not yet.

But I will say that what makes this curious is that the readership skews much more male than the production is.

By: andreaskluth

andreaskluth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:01:24 +0000

Well done, Phil.

The World in 2010, I should add, is perhaps a distorted sample, as we ask world leaders to contribute (eg the president of Russia) and those “skew” male.

But interesting nonetheless. We’re building a case for female underrepresentation here.

By: solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:33:09 +0000

Hi Andreas. Thanks for the link. Yeh, the topic is tres innaresting, isn’t it? And again, eerie, how the percentage of female journalists at The Economist (23%) is so close to the percentage for the other publications I’ve looked at.

By: Richard Manchester

Richard Manchester — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:13:31 +0000

How do you factor in the desire of women to work on The Economist?

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:11:29 +0000

I’ve perused the Economist’s just-published “World in 2010″. Of its 94 articles, 79 are by men, and 15 by women.

Hence, men wrote 84% of them, and women 16%.