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How to make it as a female op-ed star : Comments
By Sarah Burnside, published 1/5/2013Women are underrepresented in the mainstream media - and when they write, it's often informed by lived experience
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There are plenty of opportunities for both genders to write for onlne as you know: OLO, New Matilda and so on.
I sometimes wish i could get published in papers (greater readership), but am thankful a few Austs will read my pieces on OLO with occastional consructive criticism and even praise from a few prominent journalists and academics.
One major newspaper opinion page editor admitted the paper basically only publised people with names, and that i would be given greater consideration now she knew i had a PhD.
Sad thing is that some of the people (men) the paper published i would consider very mediocre. Another woman, who had a fornifghtly gig with a paper, told me years ago how China had the US by the .... while expressing no understanding at all about the interdependence of the international economy. And she also worked for the federal govt.
But hey, that's life, you try your best and what will be, will be. You need luck.
I was lucky to get a break under Paddy McGuiness at Quadtant, and that undoubtedly helped me here at OLO even though i began as a poor opinion piece writer.