It's a vicious cycle. Less fiction from male perspective is published because boys don't read. Boys don't read because men are less represented in fiction.

I don't think there is a solution except some form of affirmative action.

    Tolstoy: the Crimea  
    Hemingway: Italy, Spain, Cuba, Germany, France  
    Orwell: Spain  
    Mailer: the Philippines, Japan  
    Fanon: France, Algeria