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April 17, 2012

Not Your Mama's Blog

Samhita Mukhopadhyay, the executive editor of Feministing.com, explains why feminism still matters, especially on the internet.

Adam Rosen

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.







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