Simply ‘Chick Lit’? Forget it.

Women writers are consistently underrepresented by reviews and awards. But lady literary heavyweights are fighting back with the Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading & Reviewing Challenge.
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Excitement is mounting surrounding a unique initiative that aims to curb the gender bias in the literary world. Literary sexism, it appears, is alive and well and the Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge is working to help swing some of the literary love in the direction of the fairer sex.

Finding the solution to gender bias in the literature world is firstly about figuring out the cause. After all, it seems that literature is a women’s world. Literature tutes at universities unequivocally contain a majority of females and, according to British research, women buy almost twice as many books of all kinds as men. Men undertaking arts degrees are shooting fish in a barrel if they are looking for love.

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Sarah Adams
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Sarah Adams is a media, film and television junkie. She is the former deputy editor of ArtsHub Australia and now works in digital communications - telling research stories across multiple platforms - in the higher education sector. Follow her @sezadams