Percent female among bylined New York Times website authors, circa 3 p.m. on December 24, 2013

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Now with the Washington Post from the next morning added…

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The total is 36% female. The segregation score is .42, meaning 42% of men or women would have to switch sections to get an even gender distribution across sections. If that’s what you want.

Washington Post

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The total is 32% female and the segregation is .41. The grey couple appears pretty homophilous.

Note: Authors counted as many times as they appeared (e.g., if a piece appeared in more than one section, or they had two pieces in the same section).

Published by Philip N. Cohen

Sociologist, demographer

3 thoughts on “Percent female among bylined New York Times website authors, circa 3 p.m. on December 24, 2013”

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