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Originally Posted by Rhynedahll
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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I think you nailed it. Women read far more than men so it's only natural they write more as well.
I kinda miss the days of the "Boys Own Adventure". I read a fair amount of YA and it's really obvious that you can't have a story that isn't wrapped in a romance and usually some kind of love triangle.