WHY WE PUBLISH WOMEN:

1. In a study conducted between March 2008 and January 2010, 13% of the authors and reviewers in the New York Times and 31% of the authors in C-SPAN'S After Words were women. (See source.)

2. Of the 102 Nobel Prize Winners in Literature, only 12 have been women, and only 3 in the last decade.

3. In the history of the National Book Awards, only 22 percent of the 343 winners have been women. This number has gone down by 7 percent in half a decade and since 2005, only 2 of the 16 National Book Award winners were women.

4. Only 26% of the members of the New York Times editorial board are women, as with only 35% at The Wallstreet Journal, and 33% at the Los Angeles Times. Since its inception in 1923, Time Magazine has never had a female editor.

5. Since 1948, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has gone to 42 men and just 16 women.

6. A full-page ad celebrating 2006 National Poetry Month, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and

listing more than 100 institutional sponsors (government, private foundations, universities, nonprofit presses and

magazines, media outlets), prominently features excerpts of five famous poems -- none of which were written by

a woman. The official poster for National Poetry Month 2006 includes eighteen such quotes -- no more than 25%

by women poets.

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