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"To briefly summarize what we’ve discovered, the numbers generally indicate that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman in any genre, you’d better be ready to spend your time clapping politely as your male friends pick up the majority of significant prizes, grants, awards, publications, and review coverage." –
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I did not realize that Ayn Rand got her start by fucking Cecil DeMille. I guess that's what they mean when they say "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps." I had no idea that was a sexual term.
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Good tips, although I hate like hell the multi-page stories like this. If there are 7 tips, put them all on the same page.
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Since 1999, Prudential has used so-called retained-asset accounts, which allow the company to withhold lump-sum payments due to survivors and earn investment income on the money for itself.
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There was an interesting discussion about the issue in your first link, on Jezebel. Seems like popular opinion in the comments there was that it’s a valid and true argument — just one not best made by Jodi Picoult or Jennifer Weiner, whose writing is not that great. They (Jez commenters) hold up examples like Barbara Kingsolver, A.S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Jhumpa Lahiri, Toni Morrison, and the like as superior writers who may be better positioned as front-line warriors for this fight. Here’s the link: http://jezebel.com/5622582/why-books-by-women-arent-serious
Yeah, that’s why I thought the article was important – it quantifies it by looking at the statistics and takes a bit of the subjectivity out of it. I think Picoult and Weiner are both fine writers, actually, but not they’re not literary heavyweights so it’s easy to discount their work and discount the charge they’re making as a result, although their point is born out both by examples of high-quality female writers and by statistics. They others that you mention certainly could make the case on the merits of their literary skill.