I cringe at your choice of the word 'disproportionate' in this context. Who gets to decide what exactly is disproportionate?

I'm simply using it in the mathematical sense. There are roughly equal numbers of men and women in the targeted age cohort and yet far fewer women are in the selected group.

My strong guess is that Atlantic Monthly is not consciously discriminating against men but rather finds a disproportionate number of them among qualified applicants for positions.

I cringe at your choice of the word 'disproportionate' in this context. Who gets to decide what exactly is disproportionate? Why is that choice being made by people other than the employer?

To ensure that women and minorities have equal opportunities in punditry, I therefore choose instead to share my opinions in the obscurity of the blogosphere which is ... oh, yeah, wait, the blogosphere is also "brazenly male-dominated," isn't it?
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