“Do women write better than men?” infographic

Posted January 28, 2015 by Julie S. in On Writing / 8 Comments

The Grammarly team allowed me to share this infographic based on a 3,000 person study about writing. It seems that women were found to be more superior writers. Do you find the results of the study surprising?

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Do Women Write Better Than Men?

 

Posted January 28, 2015 by Julie S. in On Writing / 8 Comments

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8 responses to ““Do women write better than men?” infographic”

  1. Lawrence Ambrose

    Well, the survey seems to reflect the commenters here – that women prefer women authors. That’s more a statement of taste, I think, than a claim of superiority. Women read more overall (I’m fairly sure that’s true), so they tend to drive who’s successful in the many genres they prefer – particularly romance and paranormal fantasy – and will largely favor women in those genres. Now if they read more hard science fiction, military fiction, horror, and thrillers, they might favor men. 🙂

  2. Kaitlin Michelle

    I don’t base my book choices off of the author, but I have noticed that I seem to prefer female authors. Even with books everyone loves (like the Maze Runner,which I hated btw) I don’t seem to enjoy the writing style of men as much. This is not always the case. I loved the Faeries Wars series and The Looking Glass Wars series both of which are written by men.

  3. Aimee @ Deadly Darlings

    Huh. This was interesting! I do see male authors being more straight to the point, and I definitely read more from female writers, but some of my favorite authors (such as Rick Riordan) are males. ^_^

    • Julie

      I think as females we do tend to read more female authors, but yay for great male authors on your favorites list.

    • Julie

      I tend to read more women authors as well. There is never enough hours in the day. Poor books get neglected.