This is an excerpt from the editor (a woman). Pretty amazing and hopeful to me.
"Scientific American, we haven't been perfect about that, I have to admit, but we're trying to get better. The staff is about half women, for instance. About half of our large (more than eight million a month total) online audience is women. When we looked (after a story count showed a skewed authorship ratio in print features), we found that we have about a 50–50 male-female overall average for writers over the course of a year."