In 2012’s fast and flexible media landscape, opinion writing is still overwhelmingly a man’s game. Women authored 33 percent of the op-eds in new media publications and 20 percent of the op-eds in traditional media during a 12-week period last year, according to a study released Tuesday by the Op-Ed Project, an organization focused on increasing diversity in public forums.While the survey calls those results a “major” improvement, Katherine Lanpher, an instructor with the organization, told TPM that “even with a gain, we are seeing that women aren’t narrating the world, even though they’re half of the world.”
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