Vida report: 'Dangerous lens' of male bias remains in literary criticism | The Bookseller

Vida, which examines the gender imbalance of both critics and authors whose books are reviewed, examined 15 major literary publications and found that eight failed to reach gender equality last year. These included the London Review of Books at 26.9% female representation, which has improved by a quarter since 2016, the New Yorker at 39.7%, the Times Literary Supplement at 35.9% and the New York Review of Books at 23.3% of its published writers being female - in 2016, 46.9% of contributors had been female.

The TLS, which recently revealed a readership rise of 20%, also published the greatest number of pieces written by nonbinary writers, though this only accounted for 0.1% of the work they published in 2017 - four pieces out of 3,748.