The NYT asks 8 male and 2 female authors  to pick noteworthy events of the last 10 years.

Time says 2 of the top 10 Tweeters are women–Miley and Oprah.

Politico can only come up with 1 woman in its list of 10  ten political Tweeters–Sarah Palin.

Publishers Weekly list of top 10  books–don’t even need any fingers for this one, no women, nada, zip.

Amazon’s Best of 2009 includes 2 books written by women in their list of top 10 books.

Time’s list of 10 Best College Presidents includes only 2 women.

Time’s very bizarre list of Top 10 List of Performing Polilticians (in order):

  1. Orrin Hatch
  2. Lee Atwater
  3. Delay Goes Dancing
  4. Bill Clinton
  5. John Ashcroft
  6. Karl Rove
  7. Janet Reno
  8. Sarah Palin
  9. Richard Nixon
  10. Condoleeza Rice

David Sirota’s list of top 10 quotations of the decade.  Apparently women didn’t  say anything.

Excellent commentary on the systemic male fail exclusion of women here and here.

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  1. [...] top ten lists January 1, 2010 Filed under: bias, gender — jj @ 11:03 pm The feminist peace network has a nice collection of top ten lists that exclude or underrepresent women.  I can’t [...]

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