THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE U.S MEDIA 2015

VIDA
Boston Review
Granta
Harpers
New Republic
Poetry
The Atlantic
The London Review of Books
The Nation
The New York Review of Books
44.3
47.8
32.3
27.2
45.3
39.7
22.3
29.2
26.3
55.7
52.2
67.7
72.8
54.7
60.3
77.7
70.8
73.7
The New York Times Book Review
Source: VIDA
The New Yorker
The Paris Review
The Threepenny Review
The Times Literary Supplement
Tin House
46.5
33.2
40
39.2
28.3
51.9
0 20 40 60 80 100%
Women
The Atlantic, previously a monthly magazine that now publishes online only, saw its combined
female author and book critic ranks rise to 39.7 in 2014 from 32.4 percent in 2013.
The female figures at Boston Review, published six times a year, decreased to 32.72
percent in 2014 from 42.5 percent in 2013.
The number of female critic and author names in Harper’s, published monthly, rose
to 32.3 percent in 2014 from 25.8 percent in 2013.
At The New Republic, published 22 times a year, the combined tally of women book
writers and book reviewers rose to 27.2 percent in 2014 from 21.4 percent in 2013.
The female author plus female critic census at the New York Review of Books rose to
26.3 in 2014 from 20.5 percent in 2013.
The combined yearly figure for female book authors and critics at The New York
Times Book Review was 46.5 percent in 2014, up from 44.7 percent in 2013.
The combined yearly figure at The New Yorker, a weekly magazine, was 33.2 percent
in 2014 and 31.3 percent in 2013.
The combined number of female reviewers and authors in The Paris Review dropped
to 40 percent in 2014 from 50.5 percent in 2013. That compares to 20.4 percent in
2012, and 30.3 in 2011. (The 2011 data excludes two among a total of 66 Paris Review
writers who were listed as anonymous on VIDA’s report.)
Men
53.5
66.8
60
60.8
71.7
48.1
Graphic produced by the Women’s Media Center
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