Guardian, Friday 16th May 2008

Friday's totals:


And topics:


Stand by for THE FINAL RECKONING...

Guardian, Thursday 15th May 2008

Today's tally:


And topics:

Guardian, Wednesday 14th May 2008

Sadly the agreeable egalitarianism of yesterday's letters page didn't last:


Today's topics:


In a way we can take a positive message from this, though, because it's clear that a lot of men are writing about issues that might (wrongly) be identified as 'female' areas of interest, e.g. education, social care, environmentalism.

It would be nice to see more women's letters about issues that are (wrongly) identified as 'male', such as politics, defence, business, rock music, science, sport, technology and a hundred other things I'm sure you can think of. Then perhaps these false distinctions would begin to fade from our collective subconscious.

Guardian, Tuesday 13th May 2008

An unusually balanced showing in Tuesday's Guardian, which is almost reflective of the real-life gender split of the paper's readership (only if the one 'indeterminate' is a woman, though):


Plus, letters from women on a variety of topics, none of which are immediately identifiable as 'female' issues:


I don't think I would have much to complain about if the distribution looked like this every day. I'm still wondering why it doesn't.

Guardian, Monday 12th May 2008

Well, I appear to have temporarily mislaid yesterday's Observer, but here in the meantime are today's results from the Guardian:


And the topics:

Guardian, Saturday 10th May and Week Total

I'm angry about lots of things today, and I'm fully aware that the disproportionate gender representation on the Guardian's letters pages is one of the least of all our problems, but it's not doing anything to make me any less angry:


Today's topics:


And this week's totals in full (click on the 'week totals' label at the bottom to see results for previous weeks):


James Ink asked me how long I'm going to keep recording these totals for, and now I come to think of it I reckon I will keep going for another week, to make it a month in all. Then I'll get in touch with the Graun to see what the actual split is, and report back.

ALSO: Why have the pictures gone small again? That's making me angry too. GrrRRRRRRR!!!!

Guardian, Friday 9th May 2008

Today's tally:


And topics: