{"id":4523,"date":"2013-03-17T05:12:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2013-03-17T05:12:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:12:22","slug":"so-how-many-female-writers-do-you-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/03\/17\/so-how-many-female-writers-do-you-review\/","title":{"rendered":"So how many female writers do you review?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOver at Lady Business, they&#8217;ve looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org\/46742.html\">the coverage of female writers on science fiction and fantasy blogs<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nProject thesis: when looking at a sample of bloggers reviewing SF\/F, a majority of men will skew toward reviewing more men. A majority of women will skew toward a more equal gender parity, or the opposite in which they review a majority of women. There will be a handful of outliers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhich meant it was time to check my own reviewing, to see whether or not I&#8217;m an outlier or not. A few years ago I re-examined my reading habits, coming to the conclusion I read too few female writers, then set out to correct this. However, though I strive to review each book I read, the reality is that I largely don&#8217;t succeed in doing so. Last year I read 91 books, but reviewed only forty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLuckily I <a href=\"\/books2\/books-by-year\/\">keep track of which books I review each year<\/a>, so it was easy to do the math. I reviewed forty books, of which twentyfour were written by men, sixteen by women, for a very clean division of sixty to forty percent male vs female writers reviewed. That&#8217;s better than how the average male reviewer is doing in the Lady Business study (74 to 25 %), worse than the average female reviewer (42 to 58, slightly  more skewed towards female writers) and still not gender balanced.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe numbers are somewhat skewed by my Pratchett rereading project, which accounts for eight of those twentyfour, or a third of my male writers. Without those, the ratio switches to sixteen male to sixteen women, or a perfect fifty\/fifty split. All done by accident though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Lady Business, they&#8217;ve looked at the coverage of female writers on science fiction and fantasy blogs: Project thesis: when looking at a sample of bloggers reviewing SF\/F, a majority of men will skew toward reviewing more men. A majority of women will skew toward a more equal gender parity, or the opposite in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,94,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-feminism","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}