To explain this difference, it's important to look at both the positions held and products
sold by men and women in the industry.
eBay represented the perfect natural experiment: Millions of identical products are
sold by men and women through auctions where the buyers determine the final price.
Not exact matches
Men and women who met on the free market to exchange shoes
and wheat, Dr. Smith conceded, were motivated
by greed, the desire to pay less for what they bought
and to receive more for what they
sold.
In an industry where we know the majority of the end - consumers are
women,
and we know that the congregation in any church on a given Sunday is dominated
by women, how is it that the
men are commissioning
and editing the books, then selecting what is made available, marketing
and selling them?
If you
sell footwear for example you might have
Men,
Women, Children as your top categories followed
by different styles for example, casual
and formal, or type such as trainers, boots, shoes, loafers, slippers etc..
Led
by the 2010 best -
selling book «You Are Your Own Gym»
by Mark Lauren, who once trained
men and women in military special - forces units, strength
and conditioning gurus of all kinds have begun offering their takes, leading to a hot sub-category of fitness books.
TheHLabel is exclusively the first designer retail portal that
sells unique, affordable
and wearable designer wear created
by students of Hamstech institute Products cover
men's
and women's wear
and include western wear, ethic wear, accessories
and so much more.
By Judy Dutton eve all heard of The Rules a best - selling dating book by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider that urged women to never call a man, talk too much, o
By Judy Dutton eve all heard of The Rules a best -
selling dating book
by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider that urged women to never call a man, talk too much, o
by Ellen Fein
and Sherrie Schneider that urged
women to never call a
man, talk too much, or.
A
man who has ruined a
woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (
and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based on a best -
selling novel
by Lloyd C. Douglas.
A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best -
selling novel
by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally translates to «
Men Who Hate
Women», the first in his «Millennium» trilogy), is dark,
and more than a little sensationalized (involving perverts, murderers, rapists, Nazis,
and literal Biblical interpretations) to be believable, but, like most good thrillers, it's riveting in a way that you won't be able to turn away from it, even during some of the film's most brutal moments.
Looking to the gender of the authors of the books reviewed, cross factoring this with data on the price, genre
and how the books were published brought the study's authors to a lousy conclusion: Books written
by women that are released
by mainstream publishing houses
sell, on average, for 45 % less than those written
by men.
In her best -
selling story collection, Birds of America («[it] will stand
by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love
and vulnerability» — James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between
men and women, about the precariousness of
women on the edge,
and about loneliness
and loss.
Romance has always been the top - ranked fiction category
AND has always been primarily written by women (or men using pseudonyms of women's names so they would appear to be written by women — and sell bette
AND has always been primarily written
by women (or
men using pseudonyms of
women's names so they would appear to be written
by women —
and sell bette
and sell better).
This book is an outraged cry
by an Arab
woman against all the Arab
men who think we're just sheep to be bought
and sold and used for anything they can get out of us,
and paid for according to the value our parents put on our heads.
In the self - publishing arena referred to
by White at Bustle, we're pretty much out of luck: so many self - published books are moving without trackable ISBNs (a sensitive issue among authors) that as long as the major platforms such as Amazon decline to give us statistics on how many books are being self - produced
and sold, we simply can not say how many are written
and published
by women as opposed to
men.
This shop
sells cool
women's clothing
by local designers, hand - woven shirts for
men, jewelry,
and accessories in one of the oldest buildings in San Miguel that still has the original frescoes
and interior patio.
We rode bicycles around the city,
and kids chased us, waving;
men selling strange fruits plied us with samples
and delighted at our expressions after the first bite;
women in the market dressed us in traditional clothing, giggling at our attempts to fasten our longyis (a sarong worn
by both
men and women); hands were always helping,
and people walked with us
and talked with us for no other reason than to have a quick chat or ask about our home countries.
She was a
woman in a world dominated
by men, a portrait painter in an art world
sold on abstract expressionism
and pop art.
Research found that «
women were responsible for buying two thirds of books
sold in the U.S.
and U.K.,» however reviews often cover more books written
by men.
The programmatic exclusion of
women is partly attributable to the art world's being a self - replicating organism: It sees that the art that is shown
and sold is made mainly
by men,
and therefore more art made
by men is shown
and sold.
I am also one of a select few professionals nationwide personally trained
and certified
by Dr. John Gray, author of the New York Times best
selling book
Men are from Mars,
Women are from Venus which has
sold more than 6 million copies in the United States
and has been translated into 40 different languages around the world.
For instance, Indochino, an online
men's apparel retailer, has opened 10 stores
and plans to open 30 more; Yogibo, an online new age furniture store, plans to open 10 -13 storefronts; Rent the Runway, an online retailer that rents out designer clothing, is adding physical stores; Fabletics, an online
women's athletic apparel concept
by Kate Hudson, may open up to 20 storefronts;
and Gilt, an online retailer that
sells discounted designer apparel, is considering opening five to 10 stores.
Cottage
by the Sea is right, The Vermont Store
sells footie pajamas for
men,
women and children.
Chris Brown released a video explaining he was torn between two lovers: Rihanna
and recent ex Karrueche Tran (diddums)... Someone leaked a sex tape of Hulk Hogan shagging the wife of his best friend Bubba the Love Sponge, then Linda Hogan was arrested for drunk driving... Mila Kunis was named Esquire's Sexiest
Woman Alive for 2012... Jennifer Aniston colluded with a paparazzi photographer so pics of her enormous engagement ring would be flashed all over the globe
and piss Angelina Jolie off... Nicole Kidman suggested Tom Cruise was a boring shag, telling Harper's Bazaar that Keith Urban opened her «up to trying things, my sexuality, those sorts of things»... Tom Cruise went to Matt Damon «s birthday party
and got his bottom paddled
by a burlesque dancer just to prove her wrong... Jack Osbourne got married in Hawaii... Prince Harry was named Tatler «s
Man Of The Year — because their new criteria is being a skilled strip billiards player... Julian Assange
and Lady Gaga had dinner together at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London... RadarOnline reported that Danny De Vito
and Rhea Perlman split after 30 years of marriage because of his womanising... Stevie Nicks threatened to strangle Nicki Minaj to death, then apologised... Tori Spelling revealed that she had placenta previa with her fourth child, Finn, enduring nine massive bleeds during her pregnancy then having emergency surgery three weeks after the birth when her C - section scars burst open... Lindsay Lohan got in a knock - down brawl with her mother in a limo
and the police were called... Lindsay's dad, Michael Lohan,
sold a phone recording of his daughter hysterically telling him that her mother was off her head on cocaine
and trying to kidnap her to a gossip website... Olivia Wilde revealed the night her vagina died
and how she
and her current boyfriend, Jason Sudeikis «have sex like Kenyan marathon runners»... Taylor Swift was accused of cheating on her teen toyboy, Conor Kennedy, with his cousin Patrick... Happy Days actress Erin Moran was kicked out of a trailer park...
and Bobbi Kristina Brown — daughter of Whitney Houston —
and Nick Gordon, her adopted brother, got engaged.