I AM NOT MAD AT YOU,

I AM JUSTTIRED

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“We’ve got to do better—it’s as simple and as stark as that.”

- New Yorker editor David Remnick to The Forward’s Elissa Strauss on the

byline disparity

“If you really want more women writers, get more women editors.”

-KathaPolitt in Slate

"I always think of it as this chicken or an egg problem, because all women I knew who were

going into media after college, all of us went into what is seen as the fluffier side of things which are the arts and leisure, not politics not tech. Which is not to say we are not ambitious or interested in these things, but that at some

point we were given a message that we shouldn’t pursue those things. "

- Jessica Grose, Founding Co-Editor, Slate Double X

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"I know a lot of women in media, I’ve worked in media since I got out of college in ‘95, and the

majority of women I know tend to work in focused women-focused media....I think if you look on

mastheads of the magazines that are taken very seriously as the voices of America, American

intellectualism etc, they tend to be male. [W]e do see women in media, but we don’t see them in a lot of positions of power. I don’t want to make judgment

calls about women in media who are running female-focused media outlets, but I do think in larger culture

they aren’t taken very seriously or as seriously.”

- Anna Holmes, Founding Editor, Jezebel

WOMEN ARE NOT A

FUCKING NICHE