Due to recent conversations regarding gender and diversity in representation and reading habits I had a tally of the gender parity of my bookshelves. How do yours fall out?
http://ofbloodyreflections.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/reading-habits-gender-parity.html
If anything, my reading habits have become more male-biased (not deliberately, but that's the way it's fallen out). I wrote another post about gender based reading recently (http://thousandmonkeys.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/writing-a-gender-bias/); I still think gender shouldn't matter in the slightest, and I still wrestle with my conscience over women-only writing contests or submission calls.
(Thought I'd replied to this! Oh er)
I'd be curious to hear where you stand on the matter now?
Interesting blog post, quite a contrast to my own on similar lines from a few years ago (http://thousandmonkeys.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/women-of-words/). Of the fiction on my shelves, I think there's only the CJ Cherryh and Maggie Furey under the SF section, and some AS Byatt, Tracy Chevalier and a Josephine Tey novel elsewhere. Having said that, I'm not good at spotting gender in authors, I thought Kim Stanley Robinson was a woman's name for ages...