Re: SO where are the women these days?

["SteveOrdinetz" <steveord@bit-net.com>]

Donna wrote
>
> Caryl Rivers wrote about this on Alternet about a month ago, noting the
> lack of women on newspaper editorial pages.  Is this the new
> conservativism-- drive women back to the private sphere, away from
> anywhere  they might influence public discourse, leaving talk shows free
> to once  again be dominated by "angry white males"?



Well, there's Arnie Arneson currently on WKXL & WNTK in N.H. and
syndicated to a couple of Mass. stations.  Not only female, but rather
liberal too.  Whether or not you agree with her viewpoints, she's
well-informed and does a good show.  The hope is that with satellite
distribution her show will catch on with stations looking for something
other than a conservative male host.

Are you proposing we have a quota system?  It seems that few female talk
hosts seem to "connect" with an audience.  One exception is Dr. Laura, and
witness the negative comments SHE gets on this list