Tuesday, January 10, 2012

New Yorker Parity Report - January 16, 2012

The New Yorker's gender parity status is a smidge down this week - same number of female writers as last week, but one more male writer for a total of 22 writers.


The New Yorker Parity Report

A regular report on the gender parity - or lack thereof - of the current issue of The New Yorker based on table of contents by-lines
Includes fiction, non-fiction, poems. Does not include illustrations.


A score of 50% means that half of all writers in the issue are female.
A score of greater than 50% would mean more female than male writers. This never happens.


Parity change from previous week: -1%

January 16, 2012

Total writers: 22
male: 17
female: 5
gender parity score: 22%

Last week's score
Total writers: 21
male: 16
female: 5
gender parity score: 23%