Rebuck: Pipeline of women execs is 'woefully low'

Penguin Random House chair Gail Rebuck has said the pipeline of women executives in FTSE 100 companies is “woefully low” and that she is “quite close” to be being in favour of quotas, should things not be seen to be moving in “the right direction”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Women Warriors for Social Justice

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‘Hood Feminism’ makes a convincing — and urgent — case about how race and class divide women

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Diamond Reveals New Payment Terms; Execs Take Pay Cut

Diamond Distributors founder Steve Geppi outlined the terms under which the distributor of comics, graphic novels, and prose books would resume payments to publishers and other vendors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist is mostly women (again).

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Are women's book festivals part of the problem?

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Hilary Mantel: Royal women's bodies 'still perceived as public property'

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