From first grade all the way through twelfth and beyond in higher education, the majority of books that we teach in school are written by men. For centuries men have controlled the defining boundaries of what the Western cultural canon is, literature-wise. The majority of teachers are women, but the majority of administrators are men, hence men mostly control the curriculum in our schools. There's a male-centric attitude about what is and isn't "literature" that starts developing in freakin' grade school. See: What people think about paperback romances.
The majority of published writers are women (romances make up the financial backbone of the publishing industry), but men still dominate the upper tier of every major publishing house, and they still control the major bookstore businesses as well.
Has this person never looked at a New York Times bestseller list? It never drops below a 50/50 ratio for men and women authors. Most of the time there are more male authors on the list than not.
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The majority of published writers are women (romances make up the financial backbone of the publishing industry), but men still dominate the upper tier of every major publishing house, and they still control the major bookstore businesses as well.
Has this person never looked at a New York Times bestseller list? It never drops below a 50/50 ratio for men and women authors. Most of the time there are more male authors on the list than not.