Gender balance
A post at Gender Across Borders, “Sexism in English Language Poetry,” in which reference is made to journals that “publish significantly more men than women,” got us wondering how qarrtsiluni measured up. We did a tally, and it turned out that of the 380 authors and artists we’ve published so far, 218 — 57 percent — are female. (You have to trust us on this a little, because a few use pseudonyms, go by initials, or have gender-ambiguous names.) That’s about what we would’ve expected based on who submits to the magazine: somewhat more women than men.
Women fill the issue-editor positions at qarrtsiluni a little over 60 percent of the time: 26 of 43 total stints in our three and a half years of operation. It makes sense that this percentage would be fairly close to the percentage of contributors who are women, since one of our requirements for guest editors is that they must have had work published in the magazine.
