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Newspaper Article
Male writers continue to dominate literary criticism, Vida study finds
2015
Overview
[Erin Belieu], the co-founder of Vida, said: \"Our goal has always been consciousness not quotas. Art doesn't get made by quotas and some years it's going to go forward, some years it's going to slide back a little bit, but over time what we hope for is a shift in consciousness. We want editors, readers and writers to be aware of their habits and open their mind to other voices, and we at Vida do really think that is genuinely happening. And I would say overall we have seen a lot of positive trends over the duration of the five years we've compiled these these figures. \"I don't think anyone's ever suggested we have any bias against women but anything that draws the attention of editors to a striking imbalance has to be a good thing. Unlike many other publications, the TLS is an open shop, we use thousands of reviewers and seek out new critics all the time and we don't count them for gender, or indeed for anything else, apart from their good writing and powers of critical argument. We certainly don't look to fill any quotas. He expressed his exasperation at the slow uptake of such policies in other literary magazines. \"It's really interesting to see some of my fellow editors moan about how hard it is,\" said [Rob Spillman]. \"It's not actually that hard, you just have to pay attention. There really no excuses for not doing due diligence. There's no point in throwing your hands up and saying you believe in gender equality, you actually have to go out and look for it.\"
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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