This article was first published in MALE VIEW magazine in 1994. During 1998 there have been a number of articles published in the UK which have said more or less the same thing. She accuses newspaper culture of being 20 years behind the times, as far as this goes, and asks why it is that at the broadsheets 59 of the top editorial jobs belong to men and only two to women. Obviously Rip Van Winkle was a woman and has woken up as Suzanne Moore.
Newspapers are the one industry in which women have never had it so good.
There are lots of women in senior jobs . . . The change during my lifetime has been astonishing. Editors male and female are falling over themselves to find women to promote. I could not help but agree with Minette Marrin when BBC2 in August devoted their programme 'What the Magazines Say' to men's magazines. Imagine my surprise when the presenter and acid commentator turned out to be Suzanne Moore.