Sentences with phrase «by our female authors»

One of my favorites was written by a female author from Taiwan.

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.

I have read that male authors» books get reviewed by prestigious publications (e.g., NYT Books, etc.) more than books by female authors.

Apparently, you can add being screwed out of equal pay for authoring a frigging book to the list: researchers at Queens College have discovered that books written by female authors are, on average, sold for just over 50 % less than those written by a dude.

The study's authors, Dana Beth Weinberg and Adam Kapelner, a sociologist and mathematician, respectively, found that even when you looked at book genres that are dominated by female authors, the percentages only go up by an average of 9 % — so, even if hardly any men are writing, say, romance novels, the women who are writing them are still getting screwed out of equal pay.

Of course, you may have noticed that Dickey is male, which is quite the anomaly in a genre dominated by female authors.

They are passionate about publishing great books and in 2018 are participating in a year of publishing women, during which they will publish solely books by female authors.

Notably, the entire list of the top 10 most popular fiction books on Kindle star female protagonists, and nine of the 10 books were written by female authors.

But I have noticed this is less likely to happen in a book by a female author — it's as though women are more likely to focus on character and emotion.

Books by female authors published by «traditional» (i.e. mainstream) publishers were found to command 45 % of the price of male authors» on average.

Globe - spanning settings, 19th century heroines and the complexities of motherhood are some of the most prominent themes in the books selected for the new W H Smith Fresh Talent promotion, with almost half the titles released by independent publishers and most of the books written by female authors.

I've recently reviewed books by female authors with female protagonists.

Twenty - six of the 36 most - chosen titles of 2013 were written by male authors, and 10 by female authors.

The campaign, first launched by translator and blogger Meytal Radzinski in 2014, follows figures which have revealed that around a quarter (26 %) of literature translated into English was written by women, with only four out of 13 titles in this year's Man Booker International Prize shortlist originally written by female authors.

If you've followed my reviews for any length of time, you may have noticed (consciously or subconsciously) that I mostly review books by female authors.

At lunch with a friend who wants to write, she mentioned a recently published book by a female author.

Usually created by female authors, the stories are aimed at a female audience.

Thus the very top cultural tier in literature is rarely penetrated by female authors.

«We don't actually see the gender of the customer but... the writing itself is aimed at women, and it's written mostly by female authors who are writing for women,» said Ferris, of Accent Press which also publishes thrillers and cook books.

Why do so few books by female authors get reviewed in major publications?

Today's art historians were brought up on literature by female authors championing their gender's creativity, such as Linda Nochlin, Rosalind Krauss and Griselda Pollock.

From bad sexist jokes to the covers of books written by female authors, from rockin» out naked biker chicks to Kate Moss, from a rephotographed Untitled Film Still to penny - novel nurses — these are Richard Prince's Women.

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.

Averaging about one page each, the case studies were collected by the author outside his clinical practice and with the cooperation of the Daughters of Bilitis, an organization of female homosexual persons.

The tour is marketed to evangelical women to «celebrate what matters,» and also features appearances by female evangelical authors and media personalities.

She is the author the book, Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship, a project that was one of the first recipients of the National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant, and of the white paper commissioned by the International Cesarean Awareness Network, «Protecting and Enforcing the Rights of Women Seeking Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC): A Primer.»

The use of the word «delivery» by the author is condescending toward female patients.

The MP for Corby is as «a reliable authoress», as though female authors need to go by the same sort of performance criteria as a three - door hatchback.

She notes: «There is a blackbelt karate expert, a female football coach, a mormon, a former TV presenter and a best - selling author who has had the fi lm right to his life bought by Brad Pitt amongst the new MPs.»

According to the report's author, Professor Kate Shannon, factors such as being forced to service clients in cars or public places, inability to access drug treatment and a prior assault by police all correlated with violence against female sex workers.

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.

Papers with female first authors receive 10 % fewer citations than comparable work published by men, according to a new study

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.

Hrdy says the paper clarifies previous work by these and other authors showing that close social bonds — «friendships, if you want to call them that,» she says — help ensure the survival of a female's offspring as well as her own longevity.

This conclusion is bolstered by the authors» analysis of data from a neighboring population of the same species, which revealed that females that bred in groups had a 30 % lower mortality rate than those that bred in pairs.

That's the conclusion reached by the authors of a report just released by the European Commission, Women in Industrial Research: A Wake - up Call for European Industry, which looks at the numbers of female employees in research and development and management positions across the European Union.

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 authors call for further studies «to evaluate the many additional chemicals used in, and produced by, UOG processes to better quantify the concentrations of these and other contaminants in environmental samples and to assess the effects of exposure during other sensitive windows of development, including pregnancy and lactation, puberty, and the aging female.»

Half of the men received feedback about each woman's actual level of sexual interest, based on ratings made by the study authors and female students.

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 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.

The authors suggest that cannibalism by females may therefore act to promote the evolution of mate choice by males.

Due to the paucity of women with Ph.D. s in computer science — in 2011, just 20 % of computer science Ph.D. recipients were female — efforts by the top - ranked departments to improve their gender ratios might come at the expense of institutions below them, explains lead author Samuel Way of CU Boulder.

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 differentiated each new species by the presence or absence of median eyes, the number of leg IV basitibia pseudo-articles, and the shape of the female genitalia.

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).

At a news conference attended by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the authors unveiled the nearly complete fossil of a nine - month - old female primate that had been found at the site of Messel in Germany.

«By analyzing the molecules they've left behind on their phones, we could tell if a person is likely female, uses high - end cosmetics, dyes her hair, drinks coffee, prefers beer over wine, likes spicy food, is being treated for depression, wears sunscreen and bug spray — and therefore likely spends a lot of time outdoors — all kinds of things,» said study first author Amina Bouslimani.

She is the best - selling author of the book The Female Body Breakthrough, published by Rodale in November 2009.