The 2019 Lee & Low Diversity Baseline Survey results are in, and “the field is just as White today as it was four years ago,” write Jason Low and Hannah Ehrlich in their analysis of the data. But that data pool itself presents a much broader, richer understanding of who works in publishing than their first landmark effort from 2015. Through expansive outreach by Lee & Low, the new survey garnered over twice as many responses (7,893 responses in 2019, versus 3,706 in 2015), across 153 companies, this time including university presses and literary agencies, too, along with all of […]
