Illustrating the Gender Gap in Fiction

Miscellaneous
Author

Andy

Published

October 10, 2019

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Loganberry Books, an independent bookstore in Cleveland, intitiated a social experiment for in March 2019 called Illustrating the Gender Gap in Fiction. This experiment, in honor of Women’s History Month, was decribed as, “a live performance art project where we will shelve the works by men in our LitArts room backwards”. What a cool idea, and very eye-opening.

Shelves of backward books emphasize the gender imbalance in literature.

This would likely be worse if the experiment was carried out with mathematics, statistics, and computer science books. May have to replicate this in my office at some point.