According to panelist Al Hsu's doctoral research, women read relatively equally between male and female authors, whereas men are much more likely to read male authors
than female authors (90 % / 10 %)
Upon the publication of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, BookPage reader favorite Jennifer Weiner suggested that the New York Times reviews male authors more often
than female authors (and takes them more seriously, overall).
Not exact matches
But an unmistakable difference separates the writings of male and
female authors: far more women
than men identify their food habits as «compulsions» and testify to the depression, loneliness and shame that accompany obesity.
Despite these limitations, the
authors believed that the large and diverse sample from multiple schools permitted statistically valid analyses and used 5 measures of muscle - enhancing behavior, which provided a «more comprehensive picture of muscle - enhancing efforts among a US sample of male and
female youth
than has been available previously.»
The study's
authors offered several possible explanations for the concussion rate in
female middle school soccer players four times higher
than in the most recent study of
female high school soccer players.
Papers with
female first
authors receive 10 % fewer citations
than comparable work published by men, according to a new study
According to behavioral studies, even in kindergarten and first grade, girls are more articulate
than boys, their handwriting is more legible, and they're quicker at answering questions, says Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and
author of The
Female Brain.
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.
«[T] he number of women on the editorial board increased and
female editors invited more
female reviewers
than did male editors,» the
authors write.
Even within the field,
female engineers are less likely
than males to work in development or design, where patents originate, according to Jennifer Hunt of Rutgers, the paper's lead
author.
That means «the average male born in the United States is nine times more likely to contribute to an innovation
than the average
female,» the
authors note.
«Although most studies of bird plumage focus on dichromatism, evolutionary change has most often led to similar, rather
than different, plumage in males and
females,» the
authors write.
The
author this blog knows that best hiking tips for women hikers are built around the reality that hiking
females have different needs and approach hiking differently
than the guys.
The
authors note that existing stereotypes about gender and reading lead to a «gap [that] may reflect boys» fear of confirming the negative stereotype about their gender group in reading, rather
than intrinsic gender differences favoring
females in reading ability and motivation.»
In their chapter in the new book, Black
Female Teachers: Diversifying the United States» Teacher Workforce, the
authors look at Black teacher attrition, reporting that Black teacher turnover rates are significantly higher
than those of other teachers.
Guernica: The recent VIDA count results suggest male
authors still get more review coverage
than their
female counterparts.
I have read that male
authors» books get reviewed by prestigious publications (e.g., NYT Books, etc.) more
than books by
female authors.
Michael, can you make it more obvious that your long - winded, grammatical error - filled diatribe — especially the part where you equate
female authors to «clucking hens» — is nothing more
than a detraction from responding to the points I made?
Likewise, male
authors tend to generally get taken more seriously
than females.
PREDICTION: More
female than male
authors are going to be on best - seller and top circulating lists of both print and ebooks in future months and years.
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.
Women buy more books
than men do, and more
female authors are making it onto the bestseller lists
than ever before.
I know back when I didn't have much money, I wouldn't read a book that had an obviously
female name bigger
than the title unless I knew the
author.
No, I didn't include this simply to include a token male
author (although I do read a lot more
female authors than male).
In your experience, did
female authors seem to have more going on in life
than their male counterparts?
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.
Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional publishers were skewed marginally
female, and if you took out the long established
authors and just did the 3 book or less
than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to
female.
I don't look down on them, just not my cup of tea — heck, I've found
female romance
authors are some of the sharpest, funniest people I've ever met, and I'd rather hang out with them
than the literary crowd any day.
I think I must be just a little older
than you... My fav
female authors from when I was in middle and high school were Anne McCaffrey Marrian Z. Bradley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tamora pierce, and Mercedes Lackey... I know if I put my mind to it I would come up with more....
I write YA, and while it does have more
female authors than male, men actually win more of the prestigious awards in the genre.
But it also annoys me when all
female authors are classed as «romance» for reason of gender, rather
than genre.
Generally speaking,
female authors are much more inclined to write male protagonists
than male writers are to write
female protagonists.
Books identified as having a
female - named
author cost 45 % less on average
than male - named.
Additionally, according to Dr. Dan O'Neill, the study's main
author, male French Bulldogs are more likely to be affected by eight of the 26 most common health problems
than are
females.
The
author this blog knows that best hiking tips for women hikers are built around the reality that hiking
females have different needs and approach hiking differently
than the guys.
The presented artistic contexts and conceptual positions in these four
female artists» practices include references to mainstream comedy's systems and
authors, and some are more explicitly gendered
than others with literal and implied connections to the
female body.
The
authors of the study, published in the fall issue of the journal Human - Wildlife Conflicts, concluded that the extra weight caused urban
females to reproduce about three years earlier
than their counterparts in the wild.
Authors David Neumark, Ian Burn, and Patrick Button in Age Discrimination and Hiring of Older Workers (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter, February 27, 2017) wrote that, based on a study they did, older workers received fewer callbacks for job interviews
than younger workers, older
female applicants received fewer callbacks for administrative assistant and sales jobs, and older male applicants were called back less frequently
than their younger counterparts who applied for janitor and security positions.
The
author this blog knows that best hiking tips for women hikers are built around the reality that hiking
females have different needs and approach hiking differently
than the guys.
The
author this blog knows that best hiking tips for women hikers are built around the reality that hiking
females have different needs and approach hiking differently
than the guys.
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Author: Brianna Sheppard Thinking about gender in terms other
than «male» and «
female» does not come naturally to many of us.