Guest Post: Ellen Oh on The Ongoing Problem with Sexism

By Ellen Oh
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

Recently I have been talking with several other women authors about how hard it is to be a female writer. Many stressed how ironic it was given the fact that there are more women in publishing, more women writers, and more women readers.

But why, many asked, does it feel like women authors are never treated at the same level as male writers?

This unleashed a huge firestorm of discussion where authors brought up numerous examples of sexism that t...