Just heard The American Prospect's Garance Franke-Ruta give an illuminating presentation on the byline gender gap. Garance spent last semester doing historical research on the subject at Harvard's Shorenstein Center. To me, the most shocking statistic that emerged from Garance's work is that although most thought-leader magazines have editorial staffs that are between 30 and 50 percent female, a full 91 percent of contributing writers to magazines--the folks who get the bylines and the glory--are men.