The 9%: Women on Wikipedia
Remember the surprisingly unsurprising news from the New York Times way back in January, that fewer than 15% of Wikipedia contributors were women? Then there was the even more depressing… 6 / Read more »
The UK Telegraph reports on a new study showing older women who own e-book readers are more willing to engage in e-book piracy than music piracy, “One in eight women… Read more »
Yesterday, Yoani Sánchez, author of Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth About Cuba Today, spoke to Carol Hills of PRI/BBC’s The World for this interview. In the… 2 / Read more »
This week we published Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth About Cuba Today by Yoani Sánchez. In 2007 Yoani started the blog Generation Y, which was one of the… Read more »
Last week, in a ceremony that took place on International Women’s Day at the State Department, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama honored this year’s recipients… Read more »
In San Francisco last week, 175 women met under the auspices of the Exceptional Women in Publishing conference to discuss “publishing, technology and the female brain,” and specifically, their concern… Read more »
Via a story by Meghan O’Rourke at Slate yesterday, we learned about the persistent gender gap in articles written by or coverage of women in the nations magazines and literary… 2 / Read more »
In a review for the Washington Post, Michael Dirda notes that the newly translated Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy “provides a harrowing portrait of a marriage … not to mention a… 4 / Read more »
Occasioned by all the hoo-haw about Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, Katha Pollitt asks in a Guardian column whether “male writers have an edge in attracting serious critical attention?” She asks it… 2 / Read more »
In recognition of the fact that “the audience for fiction is overwhelmingly comprised of women,” America’s snootiest publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, has announced a line of knitting products, reports… Read more »