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Reported by: Nancy -- (04/21/07 11:37:57)

Title:

Maureen Dowd only female NYTimes op-ed columnist

Summary:

Maureen Dowd continues to be the only female with a regular op-ed column at the NYTimes

The Issue:

And Maureen Dowd continues to promote ideas against women`s interests - from constant attacks on Hillary Clinton to implying that John Edwards is to much like a woman to be electable to constant promotion of evolutionary psychology explanations for male-female power differential in the world, especially for female under-represenation in the media.

Comment To:

Responses:

From: Pat -- (04/21/07 13:13:07)

Here is what one woman is doing to change that:

Whatever other reasons may explain the lack of women’s voices on the nation’s op-ed pages, the lack of women asking to be there is clearly part of the problem. Many opinion page editors at major newspapers across the country say that 65 or 75 percent of unsolicited manuscripts, or more, come from men.

The obvious solution, at least to Catherine Orenstein, an author, activist and occasional op-ed page contributor herself, was to get more women to submit essays. To that end Ms. Orenstein has been training women at universities, foundations and corporations to write essays and get them published.

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