{"id":8747,"date":"2015-04-08T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:57","slug":"2014-vida-count-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/08\/2014-vida-count-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 VIDA Count is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/few-surprises-from-the-2014-vida-count\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/footer-logo.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #333333;font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;line-height: 21.75px\">The 2014\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">VIDA Count<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #333333;font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;line-height: 21.75px\"><strong>Vida represents Women in Literary Arts and undertakes an annual survey to profile the gender (and now race) of contributors writing for leading literary publications<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #333333;font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;line-height: 21.75px\">The results of last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s VIDA Count from 2013 caused s<a style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #2fa1bc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/some-vida-numbers-are-improving-what-else-should-we-count\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">omething of a furore<\/a>, so poor was the representation of women in a number of prominent journals, most notably the\u00c2\u00a0<i style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">London Review of Books\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>and the\u00c2\u00a0<i style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">New York Review of Books.\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>The reactions from these publications\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #2fa1bc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/difficult-women-wanted-the-lrb-gender-imbalance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also made headlines<\/a>.<i style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>This year, the organisation did three counts: the 2014 VIDA Count, the second annual Larger Literary Landscape VIDA Count (looking at smaller publications from across America) and the first annual 2014 Women of Colour VIDA Count.<i style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #333333;font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;line-height: 21.75px\">So what about the past year, have things improved? Is there anything to hope for?<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #333333;font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;line-height: 21.75px\">Well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/few-surprises-from-the-2014-vida-count\/\">Few surprises from the 2014 VIDA Count \u00c2\u00bb MobyLives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vida represents Women in Literary Arts and undertakes an annual survey to profile the gender (and now race) of contributors writing for leading literary publications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[273,1043],"class_list":["post-8747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-vida","tag-women-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}