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Originally Posted by Amalthia
You can say more men wrote more science fiction
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More men
do write science fiction. In another thread someone was giving as an example of discrimination that most of Baen's authors are male. Hello, they publish a large amount of military fiction, which tends to be written by men.
Personally some of my favourite genres are mystery, golden age and historical. Women dominate both.
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but it could also be people are more willing to buy novels from men so women writers are excluded at a higher frequency.
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Anything 'could be'.
But when there is a really obvious reason (lots more books by men), why look for imagined ones? Should I assume that people are more willing to buy mystery books by women, and so men are excluded?
Personally for years I has assumed that LE Modesitt was female (perhaps because of the use of initials), until I saw his wikipedia page. I enjoyed the books neither more nor less when I found out he was male, nor was I more or less likely to buy another one.