I’m not entirely sold on the whole concept of tabulating magazine content, like book reviews or short stories, and breaking the results down by gender, but Elizabeth Merrick’s most recent tally of New Yorker fiction stats is worth noting: “In 2004, 43% of the short stories at the New Yorker were written by women.” That was the second year of Deborah Treisman’s reign as fiction editor, and a 13% increase for women since she took over from Bill Buford. (It’s unclear from the piece, but it sounds like they’re comparing Buford’s overall stats with a limited range from Treisman’s tenure—not entirely fair, I think.) In the rest of the NYer pages, though, women only accounted for 21% of the material, and the men get to do nearly three-quarters of the book reviewing—four-fifths of all the nonfiction reviews, too.