As a publisher used to the more enlightened scene in Korea,I’m shocked at the gender bias in the UK books world – and I’m doing something approximately itWhen I founded Tilted Axis Press in 2015, I made a few wide commitments: to focus on translations from Asian languages, and to operate without unpaid interns,to procure a tattoo of our logo. These were choices that made some people wince or shake their heads at my naive idealism, but they made sense to me.
One decision was a little different – that at least 50% of our list be by women. While my day job translating Korean literature has been woman-centric so far, and this was always more by luck than judgment. In South Korea,possibly uniquely, women almost always outnumber men on the top prize shortlists, and the notion of a Korean Baileys prize would be seen as outmoded. I’d never been aware of the gender biases in publishing.
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Source: theguardian.com