We’re super excited that our new article on gender inequality and book reviews has just been published at The New Republic. The take away: even as you increase the headcount of women in publishing and reviewing, the stereotypical language used to describe women writers remains unchanged. I.e., better gender representation ≠ less gender bias. We use this insight as a basis to argue for a new way of thinking about, and addressing, gender inequality in the literary world.
New Article on Gender Bias and Book Reviews at The New Republic
The results are “jarring”? Did it never occur to you that perhaps women write about sex, love, and marriage more than men write about war, armies, and Washington?
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I mean, you have to look at the data. A book reviewer doesn’t just throw the word “war” or “economy” in there if it isn’t relevant to the book. What you’ve done here is confirm the stereotype, not confirm bias.
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