Tuesday, August 14, 2007

fun with numbers

So the new issue of Good magazine is out, in which they take the time to disapprovingly note that only 10 world leaders are female. Thanks! But Doree at Gawker is good enough to point out that the magazine's own masthead shows less consciousness of the whole gender balance thing:

Out of 21 editorial staffers—including Owner/Founder Ben Goldhirsh, and the photo, design, and web staffs—Good has six women. Three of them are in copy/research, one of them is an editorial assistant, and two others work on the web. So really, there's just one woman, Features Editor Siobhan O'Connor, in a significant masthead position. There are several male staffers with gender-ambiguous names! But a quick Google proves that Casey Caplowe, Morgan Clendaniel, and even Jaime Wolf are all men.

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