[hacknews20]

Why would/does anyone want a specific gender to dominate anything, why instead wouldn’t you want it to be dominated by whoever is the best-fit people/persons in the world at the time? ‘Dominated’, oh dear, aggressive language creeping In again to media description. Shock.

[havblue]

I think this is a basic template for many npr stories. Name a group and discuss the group's progress or setbacks in an industry over the decades. Discuss in relation to racism and sexism.

The story is easy to research and get quotes on while listeners who donate typically enjoy the story. At the very least it also annoys some people as well, which drives more discussion.

[assimpleaspossi]

This is why I stopped listening to NPR a couple of years ago. They are now as biased and sexist and racist as any on the planet while pretending they are being fair and balanced.

[endisneigh]

You should ignore the title, the article itself is substantial. These sort of takes are why they use such inflammatory headlines to begin with. It is a good question - why are there so many writers who are women compared to other creative professions?

[nverno]

To me, the obvious answer is women read much more than men nowadays, so it's unsurprising more women also enter into the book business. The article is searching for some sort of conflict between the sexes, but provides nothing substantial to support one.

[JackMorgan]

I don't care for subtle anti-trans rhetoric. No need to dig at NPR for trying to be polite.

[bigbillheck]

> identified

Do you have a better approach that's not to go in and check everybody's undercarriage like some kind of Kansas junior varsity inquisitor?

[matthewmacleod]

Why did you choose here to throw in a totally unnecessary little anti-trans side-eye? Like, you could just have chosen not to do that, and avoided ruining this discussion.

[7952]

I don't think the article is suggesting one gender should dominate.

It is possible that on average one or the other gender will be better at a particular craft. For historic reasons we don't necessarily know where those natural abilities fall. And obviously the average is not a good predictor of how well a particular individuals will do.

[drstewart]

Yet I don't think NPR would have written an article in the same tone about white men, for example