March 19, 2005 11:19 AM

If women want to be heard, they need to talk politics, not sex
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 11:19 AM

The world needs more female political columnists, at least noted New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd thinks so.

There's been a dearth of women writing serious opinion pieces for top news organizations, even as there's been growth in female sex columnists for college newspapers. Going from Tess Harding to Carrie Bradshaw, Dorothy Thompson to Candace Bushnell, is not progress.

This job has not come easily to me. But I have no doubt there are plenty of brilliant women who would bring grace and guts to our nation's op-ed pages, just as, Lawrence Summers notwithstanding, there are plenty of brilliant women out there who are great at math and science. We just need to find and nurture them.

Similarly of interest were some of the letters written in by readers.

Maureen Dowd also notes in her column that "There's a lot of evidence of that male bloggers predominate ..." One blogger who writes on entrepreneurial issues for women, Kirsten Osolind of Re:invention Inc., had some back and forth on a related issue with marketing guru Seth Godin earlier this week.

And finally, overheard at a recent women's business conference in LA - a group of conference planners were trying to come up with some protocols, and decided that if any member were crossing over the boundaries of appropriateness, they should be taken aside and cautioned that they might be "pulling a Larry." (as in Summers).
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