Monitoring Project

The Review Monitoring Project is the heart of what SinC is all about: giving women authors equity in the business of writing. Our loyal and thorough monitors check newspapers, magazines, and on-line review sites to take note of how the numbers are adding up. Are the reviewers talking about books written by women? Some of them are, but some of them definitely aren't. It's our job to make sure they realize what they're doing and make them accountable.

We monitor over 60 publications, from dailies to quarterly review magazines. At the end of each quarter our monitors enter their numbers on an easy-to-use web site, and once the numbers are tallied we see how each publication is doing on the continuum of male reviews versus female reviews. Some media do very well. Some need work. But that's why we're here: to make sure women are reviewed as often as men.

We are always on the look-out for new volunteers. If you'd like to join our effort, please contact the Project Coordinator, Mary Saums, at: . She will be pleased to get you started.

Quarterly Results: