Not quite as cool as the Guerrilla Girls feminist activist movement in visual art, but still a pretty interesting set of statistics.

The article doubts the NYTBR's editor's defense. I wonder if the numbers bear him out.
"McGrath offered three explanations for the unbalanced ratio for book authors: that "more books are written by men than women"; that he chooses books for review based on whether they are "worthy of review"; and that he chooses for review books that are "of interest to our readers." We told McGrath we had tried in vain to determine whether more books by men than by women are published, and we asked him to tell us where he had found that documentation. He did not reply."