Fabius Maximus notes, as others have, the shift in education statistics, with women now greatly outnumbering men in college.
I noticed something a couple of months ago that might be related to this trend.
I looked around the "young adults" section of a large chain bookstore.
About half the books were the latest vampire-and-werewolf romances from Crepuscular Cloneworks.
Overall, at least 90% of the books were obviously aimed at girls.
There were a few token boy books, and a few more that, at first glance, might have been gender-neutral. But the rest? The covers just screamed out "girl stuff."
So, is no one publishing books for boys because boys don't read, or are boys not reading because there aren't many books written for them? Chicken, or egg?
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