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The Orange Prize Is A Sexist Con-trickPosted at 9:27AM Monday 17 Mar 2008 Here is a selection of groups that have been consistently under-represented among the winners of the UK's two major book prizes, the Booker and the Costa/Whitbread: the white working class (0); West Indians (1); black Africans (0); disabled writers (0).No one has funded a prize for these groups. However the Orange Prize was set up in 1996 to give women their own prize - because of perceived under-representation in the Booker. Despite 12 years of consciousness-raising by the Orange, the Booker still doesn't give women their just mathematical due - a 3:10 ratio remains. But given that women have won five out of the last six Whitbread/Costas, does the level of injustice remain enough to justify the Orange?
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