They also reviewed more books
by male authors.
Twenty - six of the 36 most - chosen titles of 2013 were written
by male authors, and 10 by female authors.
Here's a blog post with links to a few studies: http://goodmenproject.com/newsroom/the-harriet-potter-effect-or-why-we-prefer-male-characters/ If you look at the Top 100 for the epic fantasy genre, too, you'll see it's dominated
by male authors.
At Harper's, there were 27 male book reviewers and six female; about 69 percent of the books reviewed were
by male authors.
Seventy - eight percent of SRB's reviews by male reviewers were of books
by male authors.
At the Saturday Paper, which publishes reviews under pseudonymous initials, 63 % of reviews were of books
by male authors and 37 % female authors.
If you go via the category links to the LGBT YA category (kindle store > kindle ebooks > teen & young adult > lgbt > fiction), the list is dominated
by male authors and male main characters.
At the Sydney Review of Books, 64 % of reviews were of books
by male authors and 36 % female authors, while 59 % of its reviewers were male and 41 % female.
Female Authors in both print nonfiction and print fiction are outnumbered
by male authors almost 3:1.
The imbalance is less marked among authors; 47 % of the picture books and 41 % of the children's fiction reviewed was
by male authors.
I feel, had this statement been made
by a male author it would have been dismissed or criticized.
I feel, had this statement been made
by a male author it would have been dismissed or criticized.
Not exact matches
«The female —
male accuracy differences are robust and can not be explained
by non-random distribution of female analysts across stocks, industries, or brokerage firms» the
author wrote.
According to the
author the parallels are A) they are run
by males and B) uh, actually that's the only one.
... as you stated in another post «
By inspiring the human
authors to write what they did, God made it look like He was the one responsible for the actions of Israel, the destruction of the flood, the murder of the firstborn
males of Israel, and the slaughter of Canaanite women and children.
Pro-sod
author Leigh Rutledge describes the attack in her book The Gay Decades, June 16, A fist fight broke out at a Philadelphia playhouse when ten gay activists interrupted a lecture
by David Rueben and denounced him as a criminal for his views on
male gay.
Pro-sod
author Leigh Rutledge describes the attack in her book The Gay Decades, June 16, A fist fight broke out at a Philadelphia playhouse when ten gay activists interrupted a lecture
by D.r. David Rueben and denounced him as a criminal for his views on
male gay.
The book comprises eight chapters, each
by a different
author, presenting a series of well - reasoned and documented discussions on the following themes: the difference and complementarity of the sexes, abortion, premarital sex, marriage, contraception, infertility treatment,
male priesthood and the tensions between family and work life.
A review of the book says that its
authors make a sound scientific case that
males, rather than merely being providers, have also been shaped
by evolution to care for their offspring.
In 2008, several political analysts [60][61][62][63] discussing the Bradley effect referred to a study
authored by Daniel J. Hopkins, a post-doctoral fellow in Harvard University's Department of Government, which sought to determine whether the Bradley effect theory was valid, and whether an analogous phenomenon might be observed in races between a female candidate and a
male candidate.
However, Salk President Elizabeth Blackburn and other administrators argue vehemently that the 2016 report, which shows senior women pulling in more than twice as much National Institutes of Health funding as their tenured
male colleagues, is inaccurate and represents only the views of its
authors, who were led
by plaintiff Beverly Emerson.
Although further research is needed to explain why hermit thrushes choose to sing pitches whose relationship follows the harmonic series, one possibility, mentioned
by the
authors, is that female hermit thrushes may evaluate a
male's singing accuracy
by its ability to follow the overtone series.
This is despite recent research on ocean acidification published
by lead
author Dr Robert Ellis showing that
male and female shellfish respond differently to stress.
«
Males are continually trying to announce themselves
by mixing an odorous cocktail with chemical components in their wing bags, making sure the molecules reach the female noses
by fluttering the wings in front of them,» Pablo Santos, the lead
author of the study, from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, wrote in an e-mail.
The paper's
authors cite research showing «that
male editors are more likely to assign manuscripts to
male reviewers and that reviewers are more likely to recommend rejection» of papers
authored by members of the opposite sex.
«Your characteristics as an adult
male — body size, lean mass, and sexual maturation — are programmed
by your early experiences,» says lead
author Christopher Kuzawa, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.
The
authors suspected estrogen played a key role, and
by implanting
males with hormone capsules, researchers avoided confounding influences from female physiology and confirmed their suspicions.
The
authors argue that the way men think is affected
by what psychoanalysts term the «
male wound».
The study,
authored by UTSC post-doc Emily MacLeod and Maydianne Andrade, a professor in UTSC's Department of Biological Sciences, found in both controlled field studies and the wild that
males overwhelmingly chose to mate with well - fed, unmated females.
Led
by first
author Junsu Kang, the scientists identified anatomical structures that
male fish use during mating that produce a signal that impedes regeneration of the pectoral fins after injury.
The
authors suggest that cannibalism
by females may therefore act to promote the evolution of mate choice
by males.
In a series of follow up experiments, the
authors found that the increase in sperm motility when mixing ejaculates was induced
by the seminal fluid of rival
males, not
by their sperm, and that a similar increase could also be induced
by mixing sperm with the reproductive tract fluid of queens.
The
authors of the present study investigated how sexual cannibalism may promote
male choosiness
by pairing captured virgin
male and female orb - weaving spiders randomly in the laboratory and observing which sex was more selective and which mates were selected.
The
authors state this partial skeleton has arm - to - leg proportions differing from the forty percent complete AL 288 - 1 («Lucy») of this species and the difference is explained
by sexual dimorphism (Kadanuumuu is
male, Lucy female).
By using eggs and ejaculates from many individuals in each reproductive event, the
authors provided realistic estimates of
male reproductive fitness compared to the population.
This is an article from 2000,
authored by Jeff Volek, where they took 10 healthy
males and compared their blood markers before and after initiating a ketogenic diet supplemented with 2.5 gm of omega 3 fats.
In a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Thomas G. Travison, Ph.D, of the New England Research Institutes (NERI) in Watertown, Mass., and lead
author of the study said: «
Male serum testosterone levels appear to vary
by generation, even after age is taken into account.»
Discover the tale of each girl and Yaoi, primarily known as boys» love in Japan, is a Japanese genre of fictional media focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between
male characters, typically marketed for a female audience and usually created
by female
authors.
The
authors make a persuasive case for their cause
by pointing out how
males in this society tend «to remain boys as long as possible» nowadays, thereby «forcing girls to become women long before they are ready.»
Although Suzanne Collins, the
author of the novels on which the franchise is based, has a screenplay credit in the first of the four films (along with two
male co-writers) all four films were directed
by men.
«In 1977 around 28.5 per cent of teaching staff were
male in primary schools Australia - wide, now they only make up about 18 per cent of teaching staff, and when we followed this trend into the future we found that
by the year 2067 they will have disappeared from primary schools completely,» said lead
author Dr Kevin McGrath.
I have read that
male authors» books get reviewed
by prestigious publications (e.g., NYT Books, etc.) more than books
by female
authors.
As I know, Amazon delete reviews from reviewers who does nt buy books through Amazon Kindle and get them for free not using Amazon Kindle as well, through
author's
male or
by other method.
This long, claustrophobically written novel
by the
author of The People in the Trees (2013) follows the lives of four college men (and their many friends, nearly all
male) from their early postgraduation days in New York through much of their accomplished adult lives, and backward to their childhoods.
Of course, you may have noticed that Dickey is
male, which is quite the anomaly in a genre dominated
by female
authors.
In the case when two
authors had won the same prize - in different years - the book written
by the female cost less than that written
by the
male.
But I've recently picked up books
by some new - to - me
male authors, and been less than impressed.
Books
by female
authors published
by «traditional» (i.e. mainstream) publishers were found to command 45 % of the price of
male authors» on average.
But it's also true that there was something I wanted — call it an uncompromising truthfulness indifferent to social mores — and ultimately, I felt more likely to find that thing
by turning to
male authors like Harlan Ellison, King, and later Hemingway.
She appreciates a wide range of
authors — her weekly Q&A column, «
By the Book,» ranges from
authors like Edward St. Aubyn to household names like Jackie Collins (who would have guessed that her favorite genre is» tough
male fiction»?)