Statistic needed: who is buying and writing books?
Wow, OK I am going to be late for work now because I’ve just read through all those articles. What an interesting subject. The one thing I don’t see addressed in the gender gap in literature prizes: Do women write the same number of books as men? Only the articles on sci fi / horror / fantasy and on Harvard Law Review actually address this, while people with varying agendas seem to make self-serving assumptions toward both ends. The SF/F/H article suggests that men do win more than their fair share of some awards, but many awards are given out in proportions that make sense — 30-some percent of entries are by women, and 30-some percent of winners are women. In some cases, women do better than would be expected, and in almost all cases the lot for women is improving. Male reviewers do seem to give a shockingly disproportionate amount of their attention to other men, though. It’s a good thing there are a lot of women reviewers out there to balance the scale in this genre. The Harvard La
