Feb 21, 2012

Gender Post Round Up

The past month has seen a bit of discussion on Gender and fiction, gender and con panels.  Perhaps its because I am interested in the topic that I am seeing more of it.  But what I hope is happening is a little consciousness raising flowing through the book world.

So here are some recent posts, some of which I have participated in.  All are entertaining and instructive.  I’d even say read the comments.

Panel  Parity – The post that seems to have birthed a number of others commenting on gender parity at conventions.

Or maybe sometimes Equality MIGHT Mean Half… [the Paul Cornell Parity Project Edition] - Tansy Rayner Roberts commenting on the above

The Cornell Ratio: Should SFF Convention Panels Be 50/50 Male and Female? – Tor commenting on Cornell’s suggestion.

Positive Discrimination – Cheryl Morgan commenting on the Cornell post

If you have got you head around that lot it might be worth taking a look at Cheryl Morgan’s review of Episode 16 of the Writer and the Critic  in Kirstyn And Mondy Do Gender

And because we are talking Gender, here’s my own gender report of the years reading to date:

graph

Feel free to add any links to other recent gender posts in the comments.


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Interesting to see your gender reading is so female oriented this year. I know it is something you have been focussing on for a while now.____My own graph would look somewhat similar, but then again it always would have. I almost have to make a conscious decision to include more male authors in my reading to be a bit more balanced.
1 reply · active 681 weeks ago
It is skewed somewhat by the AWW challenge, but I have also received more female authors works from publishing houses too.
My statistics are also currently quite skewed by the AWW challenge but I think it will simply balance the scales since normally my reading is dominated by male authors given my preferences for crime and thrillers
3 replies · active 681 weeks ago
The challenge is really going well isn't it. Only the end of Feb and 300 +reviews.
It is - technically I've finished already but I am going to continue all year of course!
I intend the same. I think I am coming close to the end of my target as well

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