A poll for the ladies on reading

[netmouse]

Please only participate in this poll if you self-identify as having a female gender.
I know it's hard to remember what-all you've read recently, but please try.

UPDATE: for anthologies, please count them as the gender of the majority of the authors.

[Poll #1450250]

Comments

[rileybear67.livejournal.com]

1st - please forgive my slight snark on the men post. I can be a bit pedantic when it comes to word usage.

2nd - I had a difficult time because I, too, have actually read about 12 or so books, but many of them are re-reads or non-scifi!

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why people are reluctant to include re-reads. I didn't ask for new books, just percentage of reading.

I also didn't ask people to limit poll answers to scifi. I am wondering in general if people's reading is gendered.

[rileybear67.livejournal.com]

Based on that, I'd re-poll if I could. I guess when I read your pool, it just seemed to subconsciously indicate new reads.

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

It's easy to repoll. Just click on "view this poll" and then there will be something to view your answers, and then you can change them and resubmit the poll.

[knightlygoddess.livejournal.com]

I think, in general, I tend to read more male authors than female. Sometimes this is on purpose, because I specifically like quite a few male authors. Other times it tends to be because the genre I'm reading is heavily authored by males.

The only exception for me seems to be YA lit (which I read a lot of in order to find works for my students to read), which, at least in the subgenres I choose, tends to be about 50/50 male/female authoring. :)