Welcome
Hello!
Welcome to What She Wrote, a place to celebrate what women have written.
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As writers, women still face inequality with men.
For example, who writes America’s history, and who is the subject of it?
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A recent study of 614 works of popular history written in 2015 shows that men do,* with 75.8% of the titles having male authors. Biographies (representing 21% of the total number of books) focused on male subjects 71.7% of the time.
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But if, like me, you were educated in America’s public school system, this comes as no surprise. Our history textbooks were filled with the white man’s accomplishments – as seen through the eyes of white men.
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When it comes to who writes history, the scale is uneven. What about novels? Songs? Movie scripts? Speeches? All of this constitutes history, doesn't it?
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According to Statista, just 26.5% of movie writers in the U.S. were female in 2020. Rolling Stone magazine tells us that between 2013 and 2021, female artists, songwriters, and producers averaged just 13.4% of Grammy nominations vs. 86.6% for male.
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Female novelists replaced white male authors for the first time in the 2010s, according to Hillary Kelly, of New York magazine. Will the trend continue as long as male novelists' reign lasted?
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Regardless, I hope to add a little weight to women’s side of the scale in all writing. That’s not possible without you, the reader – thank you so much for visiting/following/supporting What She Wrote!
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