German academia faces reckoning over lack of diversity

Who classifies literature by the ethnicity of the author rather than the content of the work? Or is this standard practice in the study of literature? I'm a computer scientist, and all we care about is what a book or paper has to say, not the gender or ethnicity of its author. Good to hear that German universities do not collect information on ethnicity - such is a divisive concept. I won't ever fill out any form asking about gender, ethnicity or sexual preference as they are irrelevant to the capacity to do the job. We all should. If we believe that everyone is equal then we ought not to be recording such things and highlighting differences. We are all members of the human race, and should stand or fall by the merit of our work alone.