A large-scale computational analysis of 13,869 fiction novels published between 1485 and 2025 indicates that an author’s gender does not consistently predict whether female major characters are depicted in gender-stereotypical ways. The investigation, conducted by researchers Svenja Kratzke, Erdem Meral, and Hannes Rosenbusch and published in EPJ Data Science, evaluated character portrayals using public book…
Geneva/Istanbul, 21 October— The Pledge for Gender Equality in Publishing, a new initiative calling on publishers worldwide to take concrete action to advance gender equality across the publishing industry and through the books and stories they bring to readers, has been launched by the “EU 4 Gender Equality: Together against gender stereotypes and gender-based violence”…
Sharp disagreements about sexuality and gender are everywhere these days. As an evolutionary-trained therapist who specializes in gender-specific medicine and men’s health, I have been helping individuals and couples improve their love lives for over fifty years. I recently Dr. Nathan L. Interviewed Lents About his latest book, Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of