Women in publishing — achievements and challenges

Here is an important and sensitive subject, one that can become emotionalised — for perfectly understandable reasons. As is made clear in The Bookseller’s 13th February edition, the UK publishing industry can be proud of a distinction many other businesses can’t claim: its women are in the forefront. In their lead story, Felicity Wood (pictured right) and Sarah… Read More

Goodreads Reviews ‘Sex And Reading’ On The Big Platform

It’s Not About Who’s Reading More We already have an understanding — sad to say — that in general, men are not reading as much as women. Today at The FutureBook, in fact, the author Simon Scarrow talks about his new Cato and Macro mobile game-app for iOS and Android that’s intended to help draw… Read More

Men And Masculinities: Leveling Up With Michael Kimmel

‘To Engage Men In Gender Equality’ All over the world there are amazing projects to engage men around gender equality. These projects range from HIV-risk reduction, to reproductive health and rights, involved fatherhood, violence against women…these people are doing amazing work, it’s really inspiring. What I know about these projects is this: They don’t know… Read More