Life & fun · September 29, 2022
A tool to find books outside gender echo chambers
Hi HN. I made this mostly for my own curiosity. Many of us end up reading books by or about people of specific genders. So it's interesting to find books that are outside that echo chamber but still mostly _inside_ the topical or affinity area we are most engaged in. Doing this, it helps us to each expand our reading while elevating underrepresented authors, topics and character-types in the books we read. For myself, I found it most interesting to find more female writers in the topic area of economics and technology, where I've experienced a high concentration of male writers. From the…
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN. I made this mostly for my own curiosity. Many of us end up reading books by or about people of specific genders. So it's interesting to find books that are outside that echo chamber but still mostly _inside_ the topical or affinity area we are most engaged in. Doing this, it helps us to each expand our reading while elevating underrepresented authors, topics and character-types in the books we read. For myself, I found it most interesting to find more female writers in the topic area of economics and technology, where I've experienced a high concentration of male writers. From the explainer: . Imagine sitting in a library of limited size, tailored perfectly to your tastes. If we look at all the books in this library, the genders of their authors, and the genders of characters within the books, then we can find your "literary gender bias". That's what this tool attempts to do. Giving the tool 3-5 books can serve as the seeds of this hypothetical library. From these, we can then extrapolate, calculate and show you your gender bias, and a set of recommendations that seek to invert that bias.
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