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Radio 4,10 mins

Why don’t men read books written by women?

Woman's Hour

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From George Eliot to JK Rowling, it is no secret that there is an assumption some men are put off by reading works written by women. New figures have shown that men are four times as likely to pick up books written by other men than those written by women. Women are just as likely to read books by men as they are by women. So what is going on? MA Sieghart author of The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men and what We Can Do about it, and Andrew Billen, a columnist with the Times, discuss.

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