Fascinating article
Feb. 9th, 2011 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrLiterature's gender gap
Women are underrepresented in literary publishing because men aren't interested in what they have to say.
(Rather a bald, sweeping statement, but the author offers evidence.) I've mentioned the story before about the cover for The Wild Swans, I think. When we were discussing possible covers, my editor said, rather to my surprise, that she expected the audience would be women. When I asked her whether she thought gay men would read it, she said she said something (and I can't remember the exact wording) that she didn't think men read books with...a woman in the cover art? A woman's author's name? Can't remember exactly.
(The author's on Twitter at @magiciansbook.)
Women are underrepresented in literary publishing because men aren't interested in what they have to say.
(Rather a bald, sweeping statement, but the author offers evidence.) I've mentioned the story before about the cover for The Wild Swans, I think. When we were discussing possible covers, my editor said, rather to my surprise, that she expected the audience would be women. When I asked her whether she thought gay men would read it, she said she said something (and I can't remember the exact wording) that she didn't think men read books with...a woman in the cover art? A woman's author's name? Can't remember exactly.
(The author's on Twitter at @magiciansbook.)