Forthcoming titles introduce key figures in the ongoing fight for voting rights, years before their intended readership can cast a ballot. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Women's Prize for Fiction has announced it is adopting a new, collective sponsorship model instead of a single headline sponsor going forward. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Katie Espiner reacts to the Guardian's article on whether things are getting worse women in publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Celebrating this year's class of inspiring women who make magazine media a dynamic industry. The post Meet the 2017 Folio: Top Women in Media appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As a slew of children’s books promoting empathy hit bookshelves, some kids’ authors say they feel a growing responsibility to counteract the UK’s “intolerant” political climate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Voices from within an industry overwhelmingly staffed by women speak out about senior management that appears increasingly dominated by menHave you experienced a gender gap in publishing? Tell us your storiesWhen Edie and Eddie started work as junior editors in the same corporate book publisher,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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She's the daughter of a billionaire family who married into another billionaire family and she's made millions selling merchandise branded with her name. So what could Ivanka Trump teach America's millions of way-less-privileged working women? Trump's latest book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Century has acquired Women in Space, a book by spaceflight expert Libby Jackson chronicling the lives of 50 inspirational women, including astronauts, scientists, engineers and other pioneers of human space exploration. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mainstream publishing, despite its heavily female workforce, has serious gender pay gap issues—but at independent houses, it's a woman's woman's woman's world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shortly after I was hired to be a columnist for Time’s website, I was asked to write about a book called The Confidence Code. Having actually been recruited and hired as a columnist, one would assume there’d be certain things I was capable of, such as writing a column. But this was my first... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yesterday prime minister Theresa May announced her intention to call a snap general election on 8th June this year, pulling it forward from 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you’ve been reading about recent troubles at Thinx or last year’s shakeup at Nasty Gal, you’ve likely seen reference to a new job title: the “SHE-EO.” How is a SHE-EO different than a CEO, you might wonder? Does she have a specially bedazzled pink office filled with scented candles? Is she... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nigerian debut novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ has been shortlisted for the £30,000 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her work Stay With Me (Canongate), alongside Man Booker shortlistee Madeleine Thien and one previous winner of the prize, Linda Grant. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At a panel called "Women in Comics" held at the L.A. Public Library, five women comics creators discuss how gender and minority diversity in the pop culture industries has improved, and how much more work needs to be done. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last week I got the kind of email I’ve come to anticipate, having worked in women’s book publishing for the past 13 years Continue reading at HuffPost
[ HuffPost | 2017-03-20 21:56:58 UTC ]
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The book trade is celebrating International Women's Day today (8th March) with a host of events and publications ready to show solidarity with women worldwide, as well as the launch of a new prize for Women in Translation to address the gender imbalance in literature in translation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Corsair has acquired Johannesburg by Fiona Melrose for hardback publication in August 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Citing 'education and research for everyone and by everyone,' Cambridge University Press' leadership offers pertinent readings for International Women's Day. The post International Women’s Day: Free Readings From Cambridge University Press appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The £30,000 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction has longlisted three former winners of the prize, Eimear McBride, Rose Tremain and Linda Grant, for 2017's award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Loganberry Books in Ohio has reorganised its fiction section so all titles by male writers now have their spines facing the wallA bookshop in Ohio has made a graphic illustration of the position of female writers by leaving only books by women visible to its customers. The change, made to mark... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virago is launching a month-long photo challenge and social media campaign #BooksforChange to support International Women’s Day on 8th March. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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