In college the following is true according to the Times today:
The honors students are girls girls girls. Not so true at the New Yorker, Harpers, etc.
"The idea that girls could be ahead is so shocking that they think it must be a crisis for boys," Ms. Mead said. "I'm troubled by this tone of crisis. Even if you control for the field they're in, boys right out of college make more money than girls, so at the end of the day, is it grades and honors that matter, or something else the boys may be doing?"
It is so hard for me to even write about this anymore--it's so obvious and digested to me I can't even repeat myself anymore. Just go visit the Guerrilla Girls cause those statistics are pretty close to what's going on today, the reasons are the same, there is nothing new under the sun. Women college students fill up liberal arts majors and rock out and do amazing things--yet when they graduate, and ten, fifteen years on, they are lucky to be writing for CosmoGirl. What the fuck.
When story and image is at stake, everything is at stake, so the gatekeeping, while invisible to most of the world, is fierce.