‘Numbers don’t lie’: Addressing the gender gap in literary publishing

 

And it’s not the simple arithmetic that stops the heart. If you start tallying up the substance of women’s published work — whether women are writing 10,000-word feature articles, or whether they are responsible for the shorter filler pieces — it gets even more depressing. Or look at the topics that women are writing about. Frequently you’ll find that the only articles with female bylines are about marriages and sex and divorce and child care.

Vida states, “The truth is, these numbers don’t lie. But that is just the beginning of this story.”

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