The gender disparity has been on the public radar ever since. With women facing the right up discrimination, what we also see in the queue (often overlooked) is the transgender community. 

Before GUTENBERG, books were meant to seen and not read. They were to be marvelled at as repositories of knowledge and the work of a group of copiers, calligraphers and painters. Story-telling as a result was an ORAL exercise where the story—mostly scriptural or courtly—was either told from memory or read out from hand-written books or even leaves, scrolls and stone.