| Where women are ignored Sir, I noticed in a recent book review section of yours, that there were remarkably few reviews of books authored by women. Assuming an equal number of male and female authors, it seems one is 24 times more likely to be reviewed by your newspaper if a man is one of the authors. The probability of this happening by chance is roughly 1 in 100,000. It is lucky for you that we women are genetically inferior at mathematics. Otherwise, we might complain. (Dr) Ione Fine, Los Angeles, California Sir, Jenny McCarthy rightly felt a moment of sympathy for Andrea Dworkin’s abiding rage (Opinion, April 17) against our male-dominated society. I turned to the book reviews: 13 men and three women discussing the work of 22 men and three women (two of whom were co-authors with men) and I felt quite cross myself. E. L. Tanner, Preston, Lancashire Sir, women make up a good percentage of your readers. Women make up an even greater percentage of book buyers in Britain. Last week you could have carpeted a house with the space you gave to books by men and you could have made a rather skimpy bathmat out of the space given to books by women. Ann Warren, Barnard Castle, Co Durham |