Non-fiction book reviews Total Guardian

Authors, % who are men/women

Reviewers, % who are men/women

64% 71% 29% 36% 77% 72% 28% 23%
Change since 2012 (% points) 11 2
2 11 1
9
9
1

Daily Telegraph Sunday Financial

Telegraph Times

57% 77% 23% 43% 47% 68% 32% 53% 66% 67% 33% 34%
4 17 19 15 29 22
17 4 15 19 22 29

Daily Mail Mail on London Review

Sunday of Books

40% 67% 33% 60% 75% 85% 15% 25% 89% 88% 12% 11%
21 6 22 1 38 30
6 21 1 22 30 38

Observer Times Sunday Times

58% 77% 23% 42% 67% 80% 20% 33% 60% 74% 26% 40%
31 13 21 13 18 4
13 31 13 21 4 18

Independent Independent Combined reviews

on Sunday

37.6%
of the 591 reviewers
64% 64% 36% 36% 27% 27% 73% 73% were women, up three
percentage points
26 1 14 6
1 26 6 14 on 2012

Times Literary New Statesman The Spectator

Supplement

66% 66% 34% 34% 74% 58% 42% 26% 64% 79% 21% 36%
7 10 8 17 12 5
10 7 17 8 5 12

Fiction book reviews Total Guardian

Authors, % who are men/women

Reviewers, % who are men/women

54% 50% 50% 46% 58% 41% 59% 42%
Change since 2012 (% points) 5 3
3 5 3
12
12
3

Daily Telegraph Sunday

Telegraph

40.5%
of the 731 authors reviewed
were women, up nine 60% 56% 44% 40% 40% 50% 50% 60%
percentage points
2 10 20 0 0
on 2012 10 2 20

Daily Mail Mail on London Review

Sunday of Books

48% 50% 50% 52% 33% 100% 0% 67% 100% 100% 0% 0%

1 36 33 33 0 0 0 0
36 1 33 33

Observer Times Sunday Times

38% 21% 79% 62% 39% 7% 93% 61% 45% 61% 39% 55%
15 18 22 25 21 11
18 15 25 22 11 21

Financial Independent Independent

Times on Sunday

68% 71% 29% 32% 64% 55% 45% 36% 69% 62% 38% 31%
4 1 4 11 3 5
1 4 11 4 5 3

Times Literary New Statesman The Spectator

Supplement

51% 50% 50% 49% 75% 33% 67% 25% 70% 80% 20% 30%
8 5 25 17 17 10
5 8 17 25 10 17