Murray Hill calls for publishers to be 'agents of social change' | The Bookseller

In her speech titled ‘Wider than vision: how should we think about the readers of tomorrow?' Murray Hill outlined potential issues arising from "early sexualisation" of young people. She also said publishers had to be aware that attitudes towards gender identification among children was "changing at an exponential rate".

She said: "Early sexualisation is already creating attitudes towards long-term commitments and relationships which may mean a more fractured society and home life for children of the future. Attitudes towards gender identification are also changing at an exponential rate - and we are only just starting to see the reality of this playing out. And how much will we be driven by boys being boys and girls being girls? It's a big focus for us right now."