Shakespeare’s poems and plays, “The Great Gatsby”
, “A zoo story” or “A talk in the park”
– all of
these are great pieces of literature and all of them are read by our school’s students in 12th and
13th grade and in many other schools in Germany as well. But what connects all of them is that
they’re all written by male authors.
“The gender imbalance in our literacy curriculum sent us the message that there were no female
authors worth reading” . This quote by a 17-year-old student from South Afrika shows that this
isn’t a unique situation in German schools but in other countries as well. And calling the quote
inaccurate would be an understatement. There are countless female authors who have
produced great literature over the years, and they deserve to be included.
„Why we should read more work of female authors in class“ weiterlesen

