So what are the reasons for this gender bias and what we can do for a more equal future?īefore I began my research I was fairly optimistic: good news about female literary writers kept appearing and it seemed like they were finally being recognised for not only writing good fiction but for setting new standards for the rest. One area in which this complexity can be examined is via literary prizes, which carry increasing weight in a book’s chance of success.’ What is causing this disparity? Author Kamila Shamsie explains: ‘Like any effective system of power – and patriarchy is, over time and space, the world’s most effective system of power – the means of keeping the power structure intact is complex. I did my own quick study of the most lucrative prizes for literary novels in the UK over the last decade and found that men had won 94 of them whilst women scraped around two thirds of that at 64 (and that’s mainly because the list included the Bailey’s Prize for Women). She found that fiction written by women about women won hardly any prizes, and fiction by women about men fared a little better. In a 2015 study, novelist Nicola Griffith ( Hild, Ammonite) looked at 15 years worth of data from a few top literary prizes. A recent proliferation of data on women in the literary arts has provided remarkable insight into current trends. Ivor Indyk states that literary prizes function ‘as the last bastion in this world for the literary recognition that is withheld by the marketplace.’ Which is why it is all the more pertinent that we begin to address the issue of gender within these awards.Īlthough women read more than men and books by female authors are published in roughly the same numbers, they are vastly overlooked for prizes in comparison to male authors. But for literary writers in a world growing less literary, they just might be. Governance and Oversight Capacities Account for Our Bank's Robust Management System - Philip Lynch, Independent Board Member at Ameriabank Interview with Francis Malige, EBRD Managing DirectorĪrmenians Commemorating 106th Anniversary of Genocideīiden Under Pressure to Recognize Armenian Genocide - KTLA 5 News But our authorities, which are prone to retreating very easily when it comes to issues of the kind, have declared the “seizure” of the Constitutional Court a supreme goal without distinguishing things in between to achieve that. In an interview with the Voice of America, the high-profile economist stated plainly that fight against corruption must not turn into a means of persecuting political opponents as that negatively affects the state administration system itself, and the process of fighting corruption. Also Daron Acemoglu, an economist who hailed the 2018 revolution - and on whom Nikol Pashinyan pinned gret hopes (waiting that he will arrive in Armenia to assist in the economic reforms) - addressed the topic yesterday. As early as yesterday, the law enforcers stormed Hrayr Tovmasyan’s apartment to conduct a search.Ĭonsidered from the perspective of a single chain of events, all these actions - targeting the CC chair and his close relatives (searches, questionings, indictments and arrests of godsons) in the past couple of months - suggest that this is a series of political persecutions, receiving evaluations from both the Venice Commission’s chairman and different international and local organizations and individuals. While some people take pride in the figures reflected in the Transparency International’s latest report - stating that Armenia has improved its corruption perception index by seven points, ranking the 77th on the list of 180 counties - our authorities are ″annihilating″ the political opponents under the pretext of fight against corruption, resorting to a blatantly manifested terror against the Constitutional Court and its chairman. Below is an excerpt from the paper’s editorial:
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