100% Men

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I just came across this great tumblr blog, dedicated to uncovering the world's remaining Boys Clubs. It invites users to upload images that represent "corners of the world where women have yet to tread," attempting to "shine a light" on the very real boys clubs that persist despite the attempts, and in some cases gains, of women in the workplace.

Although the data set is obviously biased, the blog avoids further editorialization by presenting the images of Boys Clubs without any commentary other than the one-line explanation underneath each image. The synthesis and analysis are left to the reader, and the result is a site that is often thought-provoking, and sometimes maddening.

A good portion of the Boys Clubs listed come from sectors where a gender imbalance has been well covered by popular media, like business (all 21 members of the corporate management team at Lego are men) and STEM (the entire applied math department at Harvard was male as of June 2013). But attention-grabbers also pop up in areas like the arts, where all the artists behind NPR's Top 10 Most Beloved Albums of All Time are men, and where--this one really struck me--every nominee for every non-acting category at last night's Golden Globes was a man. That means that no woman was nominated for any of the awards not specifically reserved for women. I wonder how many people noticed that--I certainly didn't.

Of course, the Golden Globes offers many fewer non-acting categories than the Oscars, so perhaps the gender imbalance will be corrected in March. ...Hear that, Academy? Just sayin'.