Male artists dominate galleries

New research explored whether gender imbalance in galleries is because ‘women don’t paint very well’ – or just discrimination.

In the art world, there is a gaping gender imbalance when it comes to male and female artists.

Why is women’s art valued so much less than art by men?

Participants were in two groups. One group saw the artists’ names and the other didn’t. We wanted to see whether more people among those who saw artist names preferred the male painting.

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