Not Your Mama's Blog

Earlier this year, an organization dedicated to promoting women writers released a tally of female bylines from the world's most prestigious English-language literary magazines. The group, a nonprofit named VIDA, focused exclusively on articles published in 2011. Their findings were not pretty: of the nearly dozen publications surveyed, around two-thirds of the bylines belonged to men. Draw from this fact what you will, but one point is plain: the internet rolls different.