Intersectional weight penalties — 2015 VIDA count
Yesterday, VIDA published their 2015 count. This year, the count goes intersectional. I am dismayed at how few women writers are succeeding with more than one bias operating against us.
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Books about women don’t win big awards: some data
Data suggest that the more prestigious the literary prize, the less likely the winner is to write about women or from a woman’s perspective. Women have literary cooties.
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