France’s great comics event, the Festival International de la Bande Desinée at Angoulême, faces serious criticism for being dominated by men.
With First Female President, PEN International Looks to the Future
The new president of PEN International, Jennifer Clement, discusses the organization’s mission to support human rights and its outlook for the future.
On Being a Woman in Publishing
Erin L. Cox looks at her career in publishing and wonders, does the number of female CEOs really measure the impact women have on the publishing business?
Leaning In — In Publishing
Women rising to leadership roles in publishing is complicated by social history and individual factors, say publishing pros.
And Other Stories to Publish Only Women for a Year
Publisher Stefan Tobler of And Other Stories in the UK has committed to a year of publishing only books by women, in response to “gender bias” towards men.
Books About Women Rarely Win Top Prizes
After analyzing 15 years’ worth of top literary prize winners, Nicola Griffith notes that books about women rarely win.
Call for Stories: Women Executives in Publishing
Publishing Perspectives would like to hear from women executives in publishing about the leadership challenges they face and how they envision the future.
Honoring Women’s Books in Translation: It’s Time
Writing on the blog Love German Books, translator Katy Derbyshire makes the call for a prize honoring women authors in translation.
Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced
Donna Tartt, Chimamanda Adichi, and Jhumpa Lahiri are among the finalists for The Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) awarded June 4.
Women Dominate German Publishing, But Lag in Pay and Advancement
By Siobhan O’Leary In Germany, the publishing workforce consists primarily of woman, but what are their prospects at the upper management level? The group Netzwerk Bücherfrauen recently presented a study compiled based on a survey of 1,200 publishing professionals about their work situations — and the results for women were not good: Though women in the industry tend to have …