Thursday, June 25, 2009

FEED: Women in the theater

Is there gender bias in the theater? That's what this new study was about.

The NY Times reports on a year long study conducted by a Princeton economics student, Emily Glassberg Sands, whose work has been vetted by a number of excellent economists. The study looked at the fact that many more plays produced are written by men than by women. These are the conclusions reached: More...

I will point out anecdotally, and tangentially, that traditionally girls will read books by men much more readily than boys will read books by women. When boys read at all, that is...

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