The recent announcement that Dr. Malini Parthasarathy will become first woman Editor of The Hindu on February 1, 2015 set me thinking about the gender distribution for "The Editor" designation. So, I tried compiling a list for some English newspapers. It is astonishing that most of the websites do not mention their editors in "About us" page.
I found only 2 women editors (highlighted in pink) in the 8 newspapers which I checked. Now the sample is too small but still shows how skewed the ratio is. So here is my compilation.
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Newspaper
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Editor
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Source
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The Hindu
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Dr. Malini Parthasarathy
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Business Line
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Mukund Padmanabhan
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The Times of India
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Jaideep Bose
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The Economic Times
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Rahul Joshi
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Hindustan Times
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Sanjoy Narayan
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Business Standard
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A. K. Bhattacharya
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Deccan Chronicle
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A. T. Jayanti
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Financial Express
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M.K. Venu
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P.S. This list can come handy during interview time because the interviewer may trick you into telling which newspaper you read and then ask who is the editor!!!
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