On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:55 AM, David Monniaux <david.monni...@free.fr>wrote:
> > I do not find such books on female sports. In fact, if I look for a book > on the French women's soccer team on Amazon, I find something... > extracted from Wikipedia! (Recall that football is the most popular > sport in France...) > > In short, for certain topics (e.g. male sports), there is a gazillion > books, biographies, and other source material readily available, while > for others (e.g. female sports) such sources are more difficult to find. > > What I would like to understand is how much the bias is caused by such > imbalances in sources. A possible evaluation method would be to consider > female and male personalities (e.g. writers) equal in notoriety (e.g. > according to scholars from that field), and to compare the length and > quality of the biographies. What do you think? A couple of confounding factors: (a) Historically many talented women writers have written as men (or using a house pseudonym). (b) Historically serials have bee consumed disproportionately by women and books by men. Historically libraries index book content but not serial content by subject. Thus material written for a female audience has lower visibility, even to writers in the field, because it's so much harder to find. cheers stuart
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