First solo female author wins Royal Society Winton Book prize
September 25, 2015 4:31 AM   Subscribe

For the first time in 28 years, the Winton Book Prize has been won by a solo female author - Gaia Vince. Vince has published an article today asking why women don't win science book prizes more often. It's an effective round up of everything from early years conditioning to institutional sexism (in publishing as well as science). The first chapter of her winning book Adventures in the Anthropocene is available as a .pdf download.

Although some reports say that Vince is the first female winner, this ignores the first - and only - female co-author to win, Pat Shipman who shared the 1997 prize (with her husband) for The Wisdom of Bones. It's notable, though, that Shipman is the only winning author not to have her own wikipedia entry. Women so far make up only about 5% of the shortlisted authors for the Winton Prize.
posted by AFII (2 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Always dangerous making statements about a moving target like wikipedia, but the claim that Shipman is the only winning author not to have her own wikipedia entry would appear to not be accurate, Chris McManus - who won in 2003 does not appear to have their own page either.
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 5:09 AM on September 25, 2015


Ah! You're right - my mistake (fooled by a blue/black text monitor issue...)
posted by AFII at 5:13 AM on September 25, 2015


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