Unfortunately, the perception is that women don't write SF, and though people say, "Well, they write fantasy instead," those same people forget to include women writers when they make the fantasy lists, too. It's all what Joanna Russ described in How To Suppress Women's Writing. It's not deliberate, but that only makes it harder to eradicate.
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Date: 2011-07-03 04:34 pm (UTC)http://books.google.com/books?id=ZoNDebTvUnsC&pg=PR11#v=onepage&q=%22table%201%22&f=false
And scroll down to page 317.
Unfortunately, the perception is that women don't write SF, and though people say, "Well, they write fantasy instead," those same people forget to include women writers when they make the fantasy lists, too. It's all what Joanna Russ described in How To Suppress Women's Writing. It's not deliberate, but that only makes it harder to eradicate.