2016 – the latest Stella Count
Women write about two thirds of all the fiction books published in Australia. Yet books written by men are still more likely to be reviewed in the Australian mainstream media. The situation is changing, but very slowly. The 2016 Stella Count surveys twelve Australian publications – including national, metropolitan and regional newspapers, journals and magazines…
Book Reviews – where are all the women? Stella Count paints a depressing picture.
For five years the nice people at the Stella Prize have been counting who receives (and writes) book reviews in Australia. No prize, even a stellar one, for guessing who does: men. Despite men writing only 28% of all Australian books published in 2015, books by men received well over half the published reviews. Men’s…
Popular history writing remains a male preserve, publishing study finds
Here is a fascinating, and depressing, article showing publishing’s overwhelming bias towards male historians and male historical subjects. Slate magazine studied 614 popular history titles published last year in the US and found a genre dominated by generals, presidents and male authors. Of those 614 titles, three-quarters were written by men. Of the published biographies,…