{"id":30045,"date":"2012-06-12T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30045"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:13:35","slug":"why-are-there-so-few-women-op-ed-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/06\/12\/why-are-there-so-few-women-op-ed-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are There So Few Women Op-Ed Writers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-061212\/2012_06_12_oped.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-061212\/2012_06_12_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/katie_orenstein.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, addressing a women&#8217;s leadership conference in Massachusetts yesterday spoke of the challenges women still faced in society and urged young women to break through the glass ceiling. Only 17% of Congressional representatives are women, and the numbers are not much better in state elected positions. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just in political office where women are sorely underrepresented, but political discourse. A new survey by the Op-Ed project has found that only 20% of all opinion editorials in the four big national newspapers &#8211; NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal &#8211; are written by women. When broken down by topics that women wrote on, the numbers are worse for issues of social and political important &#8211; for example only 11% of all op-eds in the big four newspapers were written by women. <\/p>\n<p>The statistics are slightly better in online and college media. Women wrote 33% of all online op-eds and 38% of college paper op-eds. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Katie Orenstein, founder of the OpEd Project, and Taryn Yaeger, director of operations<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Op-ed Project is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopedproject.org\">www.theopedproject.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theopedproject.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/28\/the-byline-survey-2011\/\">Click here<\/a> to read the survey. <\/p>\n<p>There will be a seminar in Los Angeles on June 30th sponsored by Ms. Magazine called Write to Change the World. <a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/P27rzg\">Click here<\/a> to find out more about the seminar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, addressing a women&#8217;s leadership conference in Massachusetts yesterday spoke of the challenges women still faced in society and urged young women to break through the glass ceiling. Only 17% of Congressional representatives are women, and the numbers are not much better in state elected positions. But it&#8217;s not just in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}