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Originally Posted by Ea
A discussion here about men and women authors and male and female readership made me curious about whether people primarily read authors of their own gender.
So taking into account both the gender of the authors you read in general - as well as your favourite authors - is there a bias towards a gender, and is it the same as you own?
At first I thought, yes, I read more women authors than men, but when I looked at my book case and calibre library, and also trying to add my favourite authors to the equation, I think I end up with roughly half of each.
I am adding favourite authors to the question as it also says something about what we like. For example, one's favourite author may not necessarily have written a lot of books and hence won't feature largely with regards to amount. |
Publishers must believe in gender bias, otherwise, why do so many women authors just use initials? It's kind of like looking through a phonebook, you just assume the entries with an initial and a last name are women!