In addition to being a (new!) Take Part blogger, I’m also a former associate blog editor at The Huffington Post.

Over the summer, I conducted a study of male versus female bloggers who are featured on the front page of HuffPost.  (Note: I didn’t count the number of male versus female bloggers on the entire site, just the home page of the site.)

Like the big nerd that I am, every day at 9am and 4pm for two months, I counted the number of male versus female blogger bylines on the front page of HuffPost and recorded my findings in a GoogleDocs spreadsheet.

Of 1,125 front page blogger bylines counted, 255 belonged to women.  That’s only 23%!  Not once did the number of women’s bylines equal the number of men’s.  The site’s editor-in-chief, Arianna Huffington, accounted for over one-fifth of those bylines.

My findings have been published in the media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’s magazine, Extra!, which you can read right here.

I interned at FAIR as an undergrad at NYU and worked on another byline study there, with managing editor Julie Hollar, regarding Newsweek, Time and US News & World Reports.  That data is tied into my most recent study to make a larger point about women opinionmakers.

As a former employee, I’m now allowed to — and not going to — discuss the internal workings of HuffPost.  But I can be reached at jessica [period] wakeman [at] gmail [dot] com with any questions regarding how I performed my study and what I believe the findings indicate.