Nisha Chittal

"But it’s hard to disagree with Jessica Grose’s observation that it’s unfortunate that such a large share of women’s relatively meager number of high-profile articles are on these sex/marriage/babies topics. She calculates that of the past 130 Atlantic cover stories “12 of the cover stories were written by women, which is not a great statistic in and of itself. Of those 12 covers, six of them were about ‘women problems’—Bolick’s ‘All the Single Ladies,’ Lori Gottlieb’s piece on finding love on the Internet, ‘How Do I Love Thee?‘ our own Hanna Rosin’s ‘The End of Men,’ Caitlin Flanagan’s ‘How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement‘ (about the nanny wars), Christina Hoff Sommers’ ‘The War Against Boys.’” …. women writers are capable of tackling the kind of “hard” economic, political, and foreign policy cover topics that tend to go to male writers."