Since the beginning of September, there have been 324 male bylines and only 99 female ones in these notable general interest magazines, according to Ruth Davis Konigsberg, a deputy editor at GLAMOUR. You can check out the details on her personal website.

According to New York Times, the editors of The New Yorker (98 men to 27 women), Harper’s (28 to 6) and The New York Times Magazine (103 to 36) declined to comment when invited by the newspaper. Cullen Murphy, the managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly (61 male bylines to 18 female),
responded in an e-mail message: “The byline imbalance is endemic in public affairs magazines.” Did he mean this as a defense?

Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair (34 to 12), said in another e-mail: “We don’t assign stories based on gender, but now that Ruth Davis Konigsberg has helpfully shown us the error of our ways, henceforth all assignments will be equally balanced between the sexes.”