Post: Ah yeah but...
Ah yeah but... →
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 12:10 GMT
In Lily Allen to judge Orange women's fiction award
"I look at the middle and upper management of my own (very big) company and see one woman and one non-white man, out of a good round dozen."
Then women are grossly underrepresented in your organization, but non-white men are about proportionally represented.
All the points about women's inequality are correct but miss the point. Women are NOT under-represented in the literature department and have not been for a long time. There is no inequality for women writers that I can see, or if there is it's a simple matter of markets forces. And if IIRC, there are more women readers than male readers, so they can only have themselves to blame. So it's a bit of a shame to make an issue out of it where there is non, when there are so many areas of life where there is a very big issue indeed.
/me waits with baited breath for "My Booky Wook" to win.
Mine's the one with the padded elbows...
