But still, they were not really able to succeed. They\u2014and I\u2014remained stuck in a trap not of our own making. It\u2019s called editing while female.\u00a0 I said nothing when I worked as an editor and considered myself privileged\u2014if more than occasionally terrified\u2014when I was sent off to cover the war in Afghanistan, and heard the sound of gunfire for the first time while reporting on the battle of Tora Bora. I learned Russian and traveled to Iraq and slept on a hospital roof in Basra with a team of British snipers and co-wrote a book about Vladimir Putin. I edited Roll Call, <\/em>a newspaper about Congress, in my 20s. I edited the Washington Post<\/em> Outlook section and Foreign<\/em> Policy<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n I was an optimist, even about the Internet, killer of tradition, and I believed that the bad old days of institutionalized discrimination were mostly behind us. As for the other stuff, the lingering evidence this was not entirely the case, I just avoided it. I didn\u2019t write about how isolated I felt as a young working mom surrounded by older men or how to run a meeting while having a miscarriage. I did not blog about the male editor who told me I shouldn\u2019t worry about having my own slot as a Washington Post<\/em> foreign correspondent alongside my husband, since I couldn\u2019t possibly hope to be his peer as a journalist anyway. Even when I became a department head and discovered that I was paid less than all of the other senior editors at the Post<\/em>, I said nothing, because after all, I was younger and I was a woman and I didn\u2019t want it to be about that. And besides, speaking up would mean being judged. And inevitably being found wanting.<\/p>\n Susan B. Glasser writes: There are few women at the top anywhere in America, and it\u2019s a deficit that is especially pronounced in journalism, where women leaders remain outliers, category-defying outliers who almost invariably still face a comeuppance. Sheryl Sandberg … Continue reading ![\"Brenda](\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Brenda-Starr-Reporter-300x248.jpg\")
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