Australia's women writers still get far less attention than men, survey finds

The annual Stella Count, looking at the gender breakdown of authors and reviewers, ascribes imbalance to ‘ingrained, unconscious bias’

Although women account for two-thirds of Australia’s authors, a survey has found that almost every publication analysed reviewed more men than women last year.

The Stella Count looked at the gender breakdown of the authors reviewed in more than a dozen papers in Australia, including the Sydney Review of Books, where the split was 64% male to 36% female, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, where the split was 61% male to 39% female, and the Australian Book Review, where it was 66% male to 34% female.

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