(For books in which characters were not assigned a gender, researchers noted, parents reading to their children tended to assign one: male.) No more than 33 per cent of children’s books in any ...

Children's books are dominated by male characters while female protagonists ... Future research could build on this work by considering reading rates of specific books, as well as books with ...

the readership for bestselling titles by male authors was more evenly split: 56% men and 44% women. Women, on balance, read far more than men do, and are much more willing to read books by men ...