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Well, I don't have anything scientific to add, just my own impressions.
As far as the community of online indie writers: predominantly female.
Reasons for this?
My thought is that the general readership for all genres has shifted toward a feminine majority and this might tend to encourage more female writers.
From my perspective as a male indie writer, it also seems to me that the broad general preferences of female readers tends toward subject matter that must be lumped in the general category of romance, no matter what other genre it might be wrapped in.
I am old enough to have read mainstream SF & F in the sixties, and it seems clear to me that plots and themes have moved from male oriented to female oriented since then.
Interestingly enough, literature in France in the middle ages underwent a similar change from martial male oriented long poems to the decidedly artificial courtly romance.
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