Does publishing have a gender problem when it comes to digital?
Top industry heads got together at the “Publishing for Digital Minds Conference” at the London Book Fair to discuss gender equality and whether women are being left out from the… Read more »
Canada’s Rosalind Prize seeks to correct gender disparity
Canadian publishing industry magazine Quill and Quire reports that, shocked by the imbalance between men and women who win literary prizes, Janice Zawerbny has come up with the idea for… Read more »
How should women be?
Consider the titles of some of this year’s biggest female-wrought creativity: Girls, How Should a Person Be?, Vagina, How to be a Woman. These are titles with magnitude, splashed across the front of hardbacks… Read more »
Women’s and workers’ libraries under threat
In another heartbreaking piece of news from the libraries front line, the Women’s Library and Trade Union Congress Library in London are under threat. Both are currently housed by London Metropolitan… Read more »
Are publishers keeping women down?
Are publishers inadvertently reinforcing an imbalance of acceptance given to books written by men compared to those written by women? Author Meg Wolitzer in a New York Times story, asks depressingly… 1 / Read more »