The Unbalancing Act: How literary periodicals flail to correct gender inequity

"If I were a man, and cared to know the world I lived in, I almost think it would make me a shade uneasy — the weight of that long silence of one half of the world." — Elizabeth Robins, 1907

Recently Good Magazine published an article with a simple solution to inequity on conference panels. What if white men refused invitations to panels that don't properly represent the diversity of their industries? The idea was so basic, yet I had never even considered it. Usually when I see five men on a magazine, marketing, tech or publishing panel, I criticize the organizers: "You couldn't find a single woman?" I ask. It never occurred to me to question the participants.
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2011/06/16/the-unbalancing-act/