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Originally Posted by GlennD
Here's some data, not sure how 'hard' it is. 
Apparently there is a huge disparity in the number of books reviewed by major magazines/newspapers by each gender. For example, in 2010 the New York Times reviewed books by 283 female authors, while reviewing 524 male authors.
If reviews by major media outlets influence sales, that's a big deal.
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Ah, statistics
For this to mean anything you now need to find out the percentage of books published in that year for male/female authors - Probably just for Big 6/5/4/however many are left publishers.
If about 2/3rds of the books published are by male authors then the reviews are a very even 50/50 split.