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fwiw, my definition: books intended for women are secondarily about events, primarily about the psychological consequences of those events, describing the effort that goes into making relationships work, etc.; books intended for men are primarily about describing sequences of events, with a protagonist whose feelings about those events are mostly ignored, or actively dismissed because 'no time for that now'. (Would also propose that 'depth', esp wrt men, is mostly a feature of motivations / feelings being opaque by virtue of their being left undiscussed, rather than about (certain) people being particularly deep.)
Would propose that 'literature' is a separate 'category'.
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