Story on NPR: A couple of years ago, British author Ian McEwan conducted an admittedly unscientific experiment. He and his son waded into the lunch-time crowds at a London park and began handing out free books. Within a few minutes, they had given away 30 novels.
Nearly all of the takers were women, who were “eager and grateful” for the freebies while the men “frowned in suspicion, or distaste.” The inevitable conclusion, wrote McEwan in The Guardian newspaper: “When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.” Article continued here.
Drum roll…..
Why do women read more than men?
Because men have the remote.
That idea is rubbish
and anyway if I was in a park in London (or anywhere) and someone was going round handing out books I’d assume they were religious nutters and try to ignore them.
Now try a stall in a railway station or park with a big sign and it’d be a different story I bet.