Gender Imbalance on the Campaign Trail

Meryl Gordon, CJR
MANCHESTER, NH — The sea-green and white concrete gymnasium at Saint Anselm College was transformed this past Saturday night into a temporary state-of-the-art filing center for the GOP presidential debate, with big screen TVs, Wi-Fi, and nearly 700 journalists seated at black tablecloth-covered plastic tables, tapping away at keyboards. Yet there was a strangely old-fashioned Front Page element to this press scene—the dominance of men.“It’s always been lopsided,” says Katharine Seelye of The New York Times, standing in one of the front rows,...

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