the complete review Quarterly
Volume III, Issue 4   --   November, 2002


Author-sex breakdown of books under review
Appendix to How sexist are we ?





       As we determined in our piece, How Sexist are We ?, the complete review reviews far more books by male authors than by female authors. Here a breakdown of the numbers, showing that the disparity has been fairly constant for the entire history of the site.
       We will update this page (after each new hundred reviews) to see if things change in the future ...

Reviews of Books by Women
Reviews Number percent
1-100 10 .
101-200 15 .
201-300 19 .
301-400 10 .
401-500 13 .
501-600 7 .
601-700 10 .
701-800 12.5 .
801-900 17 .
901-1000 18 .
1001-1100 19 .
1101-1200 14 .
1201-1300 14.5 .
1301-1400 17 .
1401-1500 13 .
1501-1600 14.5 .
1601-1700 19 .
1701-1800 14 .
1801-1900 12 .
1901-2000 17 .
2001-2100 18 .
2101-2200 11 .
2201-2300 19 .
2301-2400 15.5 .
2401-2500 17.5 .
2501-2600 15.5 .
2601-2700 15.5 .
2701-2800 16.5 .
2801-2900 20 .
2901-3000 15.5 .
3001-3100 19 .
3101-3200 16 .
3201-3300 13 .
3301-3400 22.5 .
3401-3500 15 .
3501-3600 22 .
3601-3700 16.5 .
3701-3800 20 .
3801-3900 17.5 .
3901-4000 21 .
4001-4100 18 .
4101-4200 18 .
4201-4300 17 .
4301-4400 27 .
4401-4500 18 .
4501-4600 28 .
4601-4700 19 .
4701-4800 28 .
4801-4900 24 .
4901-5000 20 .
5001-5100 29 .
5101-5200 21 .
. . .
TOTAL 899 17.29

"Reviews" refers to the reviews in the chronological order they were posted on the site -- i.e. 1-100 refers to the first hundred reviews posted. "Number" refers to how many of each hundred books were authored or edited by women.

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