The 2012 VIDA count of book reviews and reviewers, marking the male-female split in mainstream literary coverage over the past year, has been released...
If a female writer makes the claim that the literary establishment is predominantly male-centric on account of sexism, and your response is to claim that women are both inherently less interesting and worse writers than men, then congratulations! You are being sexist.
I can't stop people from telling their children that girls don't run, yell, punch or get rowdy. But I wish I could.
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Gender distinctions in literature are arbitrary and often ass-backwards. Can women, for example, write "men's fiction"? Why not?
Do we have to resort to using initials in our bylines so our gender is hidden in order to get published, lauded, hired or promoted?
Last week, Vida, an organization that "seeks to explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women," released their annual pie charts that ...
In 2011, the number of articles published by women in top thought-leader magazines was significantly less than the number of articles published by men.
"Don't more men than women submit? This is what I hear from editors." I've read this opinion-written-as-fact too often, usually presented with a figurative airy wave.
The publication rates for men versus women in some of the world's most prestigious literary outlets are in, and the disparity is drastic. VIDA, an...
In response to Russ Marshalek’s excellent post on devastatingly sad books last week, we’ve decided to try and lift your spirits a little during th...
When Vida -- an organization promoting women in the arts -- released its statistics about how many women versus men are published in a variety of maga...
