There Is a Culture Industry That Gives Its Top Prizes to Women
The big literary awards this year have been positively dominated by female writers.
Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences produced yet another all-male slate for the Best Director category of the Oscars—and provoked yet another round of outrage that America’s culture industry is incapable of recognizing the achievements of women. But there is, in fact, a major creative industry in which women are routinely awarded the top honors. It's called publishing.
The big literary awards this year have been positively dominated by female writers and—remarkably—thisThis is the good-news story contradicting persistent gender inequities in, it often seems, every other field.
