A user called Daphne posted a comment — encouraged by me after an earlier email she sent to Jewcy — asking why the female representation is nil on our new politics blog:
The Cabal looks excellent–I'm looking forward to reading it!
Scanning the list of contributors, however, I noticed that all ten of the Cabal bloggers are male. I wouldn't bring this up if you had a group of only three bloggers, or maybe even five, but a line-up of ten contributors starts to imply a representative sample of contemporary ideas relating to Judaism, the Middle East, and politics. To not include a single female voice in this mix seems odd, at best.
The gender-balance situation looks even stranger when you consider the fact that the writers for Faithhacker and Pickled, about religion and food, are female, and the writers for The Daily Shvitz and now The Cabal, about politics, are male.
Gender-related stereotypes are ingrained and hard to overcome. I'd love to see Jewcy work towards changing the status quo, instead of reinforcing outdated ideas.
This is something that's been bugging me ever since I created our roster of poli-bloggers and tried them out on the Shvitz. Full disclosure: I hire people whom I read regularly and with enjoyment. But there are so many blind spots in my bookmarks that I'm enlisting your help to find a few good women to add to the ideological eclecticism of The Cabal.
Name names, people! Who would you like to see here?
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