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Originally Posted by murraypaul
No, not unless the proportion of books being written that are worthy of winning are assumed to be 50:50 by men and women.
An unbiased process is one that treats everyone purely on merit. One that attempts to 'balance out' the results in an artificial way is biased.
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Perhaps, then, the judging panel should simply be given anonymous manuscripts, and not know who the author is? That's the way that peer reviewing in scientific journals is done, precisely to eliminate any element of personal bias that might arise through knowing the name of the author.