Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Tell me why we don't need feminism anymore, again?

Link to Guardian article: For every £1 fetched by a male artist’s work, one by a woman gets a mere 10p – and its value plummets further if she signs it. The creator of Recalculating Art, a shocking new radio exposé, reveals her findings


"Let’s get back to quality. Could it be that men are simply better artists? Oxford professor of finance Renée Adams decided to put the idea to the test. She showed participants five paintings by men and five by women and asked them to identify the gender of the artist. They guessed right 50% of the time – no better than tossing a coin. This is pretty good evidence that art by men is no different from, and thus no better than, art by women.

Then she showed a sample of affluent men who visit galleries – the classic profile of an art collector – a painting created by AI, and randomly assigned it either a male or female artist’s name. If the collectors were told it was painted by a man they said they liked it more than if they were told it was painted by a woman. As she puts it: “The same artist, the same painting.”

It's funny what gaps there are - well, not funny - infuriating, depressing, mindboggling.. 

I heard on the radio news that the women's football team are pushing for girls to have more opportunities to play football at school, and remember it wasn't an option for me at my school, nor I think at my daughter's. 

Yay, the women for winning the Euros, btw. 

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