"I read letter after letter from well-meaning, perfectly nice men and women who list reams of writers they admire, without apparently noticing that the writers they are listing are all of one gender," wrote Davis-Goff in the Irish Times. "If a writer lists two influences and they both happen to be male - well, fair enough. They never both happen to be female, though, and receiving list after list of five, seven, 10 or more male influences is disturbing. It points again to the larger issue in the industry: our habitual, unchecked dismissal of the experiences, viewpoints and brilliant work of women."
Publisher finds that writers' influences are mostly male | Books | The Guardian
3 August 2015
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