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the previous year. The additions to the annual report included that overall, 57% of the reviews were written by men, 37% were written by women, 5% were by male and female co-authors, 1% by unknown writers, and under 1% by non-binary writers. Of the reviews written by women, 43% were books written by men and 51% were books written by women. Of the reviews written by men, 69% were books written by men and 28% were books written by women. The CWILA Count showed that men were 3 times as likely to review books by men as opposed to books by women.
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Of all of the books reviewed, there still remained a gender imbalance throughout the authors of the books being reviewed. The CWILA Count included: 52% by men, 40% by women, 7.5% by mixed-gender co-authors, under 1% written by anonymous authors, and 0.1% by authors identified as non-binary. The male
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In 2013, the CWILA Count totaled to 5,613 book reviews in 31 publications. Additionally, CWILA broadened their horizons of reviews by including French-language publications into the mix. For the 2013 CWILA Count, CWILA included 4 French-language publications. This was an 82% increase in reviews from
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CWILA's 2014 Count included 5,866 reviews, of which 32 were publications by journals and newspapers, and of those 32 publications, 5 were French-language publications. The results of the reviews by category were: 53% written by men, 39% written by women, 7% written by mixed-gender co-authors, under
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The 25 publications in the 2012 CWILA Count consist of 3,092 reviews, where two-thirds of the publications pertained to books by
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However, there is still a large unequal gender disparity of reviewers in French publications. The 2015 CWILA Count results in reviews in
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Within the 2014 CWILA Count, the results showed that men were 2.5 times more likely to review books written by men than books written by women, which is .5 times less than the previous year. The CWILA Count also showed that women were 12% more likely to review books authored by women compared to
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For the first time since the project initiated, the overall CWILA Count had reached its closest to an equal balance of male to female reviewers with the final ratio being 49% of reviews being written by men and 48% by women. The remaining included 3% anonymous reviewers, under 1% mixed-gender
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