few questions

What does a book have to do to qualify for these, just released in 2023?

Why arent they basing this off of how many people read and reviewed a book this year no matter the release date as a more accurate depiction of what was being read and more popular this year?

I am noticing a worrying trend. More women authors to men, largely disproportionate.

fiction- 13 clear women writers, 5 clear male, as in clearly their names are for a specific gender.

historical fiction- 17 female, 2 maybe 3 male.

mystery and thriller- 17 female, 3 maybe 4 male.

romance- 19 female, 1 male

romantasy- 20 female, 0 male

fantasy- 16 female, 4 male

sci fi- 10 female, 10 male,

horror- 12 female, 8 male

ya fantasy and sci fi- terrible why cant they separate these- 20 female with one cowritten book including a male author

ya fiction- 20 female, 0 male

debut novel 2023- 19 female or not male, 1 male

best non fiction- 13 female, 1 cowritten female/male authors, 6 male

memoir and autobiography- 17 female, 3 male,

history and biography- 16 men, 1 male/female author cowriter, 3 female

humor- 13 female, 7 male

when i say male female here i mean female to include any non male identifying individual and i compiled this list based of their names and not their gender identity, for some reason it is hard to find genders on authors pages on good reads.

I think this is important to discuss as i always see more content on instagram, tik tik, and youtube saying people want to read more female and underrepresented individuals to get more perspectives in their books. But they totally ignore males and i rarely see male authors talked about these days.

As of 2021, 50.45% of authors within the US are women and 49.55% of authors are men. However in terms of earnings, on average female authors’ salaries are 96% of the value of male authors’ salaries. The average age of an author that is employed is 42 years old. Feb 8, 2023 https://wordsrated.com/author-demographics-statistics/#:~:text=As%20of%202021%2C%2050.45%25%20of,employed%20is%2042%20years%20old.

I also want to include that literacy is a issue between the genders and here is the article that proves it. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/technology/technology-media-and-telecom-predictions/2022/gender-gap-in-reading.html

this article goes over the percentage of authors to their readers genders as well as it’s impact on young readers.

Also i want to add despite reading over 72 books this year so far i have not read any of the books on any of the lists for voting on the choice awards and hadnt even heard of most of them.

Why are they having us vote on books most of us didnt read? What books were actually read this year based on number of users of good reads saying they read them this year? I want to vote on those books not this weirdly overly female list.

written as a female who reads books despite gender.

  • ksarlathotepBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand exactly what you mean by each of these points, but I’m getting the impression that you don’t really have a strong grasp of how statistics work. So let’s take these in turn.

    Your not worried that 44% of women read to 24% of men, at 15 years old.

    This is an absurd statement the way you phrased it. 44% of all 15 year old women on earth read to 24% all 15 year old men at earth? My guess is that you want to make a point about the imbalance in teachers (more women than men) and students (more women than men, the higher up the education ladder you go) or something related to that, and if so you’re right, that is an issue that needs to be actively observed, but it’s also unrelated to your original post.

    That there are more women reading women authors than read male authors which makes women the main earners in their jobs

    Again, this sentence means nothing. Why would women be the main earners at their jobs (whatever jobs that may be) because women read more female than male authors. I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.

    Yes I had data that said men were making more by 4% but that people were reading substantially less of their work which means women are actually making more

    I don’t know what this is referring to. In your original post you said that more than half of all authors were female, yet they were making less than 100% the money their male counterparts were making. So if that’s the case, then women are earning less. There was no mention anywhere of how these authors were compensated - you do know that authors don’t necessarily get paid depending on how much they’re being read? There’s advances and then there’s a certain percentage of sales, if the sales earnings are higher than the advance already paid.

    BUT in your original post you used the term salaries, which implies that we’re talking about writers in employment situations. So this would include copywriters, staff writers, salaried journalists, etc. etc.

    Again, it’s incredibly hard to make sense of what you’re trying to say.

    If women make less pee book sold then men or per contract but women sell more copies of books that means men actually make less

    See above. Nothing you have said demonstrates that women sell more copies of books, or that their earnings are tied to that, or that they make more money.

    Not only that it discourages men from being authors when they see trends like women out selling male authors. And subsequently this would mean men have less books to read that they like.

    This is speculation. Even IF what you’re saying about earnings is true, there isn’t any data here about what motivates men to be writers, or whether the numbers of male writers are decreasing, or whether that decrease correlates to the rise in female authors’ earnings. This is a wild guess.

    There are less books for men. There is substantially more books written by women for women than their are for men by men.

    How is a book written “for women” or “for men”? How do you measure that? And where is the statistics on that? You didn’t post anything of the sort.

    This does actually discourage male readers. Why would they want to read more if they have less options than women do. This directly effects literacy.

    And again, wild speculation without a hint of evidence in what you posted.

    I gotta be honest, I get the feeling you can’t really read statistics, but you’re vaguely worried about women outperforming men in education and academia, and you somehow threw together every argument you could think of regarding that and tried to justify all of that with your one article about average earnings, but that’s not how it works.

    I get being worried about men dropping out of education earlier and earlier. I get that it’s a potential issue that the overwhelming majority of education and childcare work is done by women - on multiple accounts. Namely because it’s low-paid work that we overwhelmingly let women do, bringing down women’s average incomes, because it brands education work as a “female activity” which also affects the attitudes to parenting and childcare of men outside the profession in negative ways, because we don’t very well understand the effects of male children having few male role models and male models of adult behavior during their early education, etc. etc.
    I get being worried about that.

    But your articles say nothing of what you think they say. So no, I’m not worried about those.