No progress for female bylines

VIDA’s third annual survey of female representation at several prominent print publications — “The Count” — was released on March 4. For the third year in the row, the number of male bylines and works by male writers reviewed vastly outnumbered those of women almost across the board, and a look at all data from all three years indicated that things haven’t improved over time (in fact, at several publications, the percentage of women represented decreased between 2011 and 2012). In previous years, VIDA demanded better from those publications. This time, it seemed to meet the results with a resigned sigh.