Have male love interests in romance novels become too "soft"? Fabio Lanzoni, who modeled on scores of romance novel covers, thinks so. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 📚 Celeb news ⭐ ...

Children's books are dominated by male characters while female protagonists are being underrepresented, a new study reveals. Researchers have analysed more than 3,000 fiction and non-fiction books ...

Male-female character ratio in books 4:1, says USC research Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering made use of artificial intelligence to scan books ranging from science fiction and ...

Books published from the 1930s to the 1960s were the most unequal, which corresponds to a time of re-entrenched gender roles in society, McCabe said. Children's books in the 1990s had an almost ...

Gender bias uncovered in children's books with male characters, including male animals, leading the fictional pack. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

A growing online campaign aims to stop people reading books by white male authors. Martin Daubney believes it's part of a worrying wider trend Neil Gaiman said he didn't mind 'being the posterbook ...

A 2011 Florida State University study found that just 7.5 per cent of nearly 6,000 picture books published between 1900 and 2000 depict female animal protagonists; male animals were the central ...

Over 100 straight white male photo books were cut up to make this book. August 8, 2022 ‘The Bikeriders, 2019’, from “SCUMB Manifesto” MACK, 2022. (Justine Kurland) ...

Aaron Aceves and Savy Writes Books debate why gay stories written by presumably straight women have become so popular — and the backlash that ensues.

For much of American history, the books that children read have largely centered on white, male characters—but is that starting to change? Not very much, and not very quickly, suggests new research ...