Does Gender Bias in Publishing Actually Exist Here?
What’s happening from data driven, fact based perspective.
Writing anything is like raising a child. You create something, take care of it, nurture it and and hope to God, when it comes time to send it out into the world, that the world will be kind it.
That doesn’t always happen.
Recently, there has been some discussion about the direction of this platform and its effect on writers.
It’s become a highly charged discussion about gender equality. I’m not really sure how that happened.
One train of thought has emerged that men have become the underdog and women are the chosen ones here. Obviously, as one would suspect, the majority of the riders on this train are men. The other train of thought is no more than the dismissal of the idea.
I’m not here to invalidate anyone’s feelings. Lord knows, as someone who frequently writes about equality, I have had my feelings and perspectives invalidated enough times to know it’s just not humane. If men justifiably feel slighted, they should be allowed that.
Still, when I heard the argument that female writers were set up for more success than men on Medium, I…
