I recently attended a few book readings and I noticed a trend: more women than men, always (some proof below). And I recently read a New Yorker article that proposes one possible, not well studied, driver of this:
"that it is all book-publishing's fault, because the industry is staffed mostly by women, leading to a lady-lit bias in what gets published." - I never actually felt this bias.
"that it is all book-publishing's fault, because the industry is staffed mostly by women, leading to a lady-lit bias in what gets published." - I never actually felt this bias.
more on this here:
