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Originally Posted by tompe
The reasoning was partly that women tend to have female protagonists and men have male protagonists. Boy/men did not usually buy books with female protagonists but women bought book with male and female protagonists.
You want people to look more closely on a book and if all boy/men sort away female writers without looking more closely at the book you have a problem.
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I repeat, I question the truth of that assumption. I suspect it can not be backed up with hard data.