What Accounts For Gender Inequality Of Authors Reviewed By NYT?
The Times seems to have a bias toward male authors. The question then becomes where the bias comes from. Is it unconscious? But the question might be more complicated. Is the Times slighting books by women because those books are more likely to fall under the category of "commercial fiction," a category that critics are alleged to routinely ignore? The New Republic 09/07/10

Posted September 8, 2010 09:01 AM