Writing at The Daily Beast, Daphne Merkin noted:

But here's something to give pause: The special election issue of The New Yorker has five male writers commenting on its implications; there is only one woman featured in the issue (although she has two pieces, as if in compensation). Similarly, the November issues of Harper's and The Atlantic are top-heavy with male writers, notwithstanding the fact that The Atlantic cover touts a story headlined “Should Women Rule the World?” which turns out to be a rather cutesy review of a book by DeeDee Myers with that title, not a serious consideration of the question at all.