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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Anecdotal....
Why? It has no bearing whatsoever on the topic.
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Of course it's anecdotal as I'm just one person who hasn't checked every writer currently publishing, but it has everything to do with the topic. I can't but fail to observe, at least in the genres I'm reading (and sometimes, writing in):
- A *HUGE* percentage of writers in NanoWrimo in the Netherlands is female. I was at the kickoff-day last year, and it was 4 women for every male. The forums are positively overrun by females compared to males.
- Most of my recommendations coming from Kobo are by young-ish/ new-ish female writers (and have female protagonists)
- Most of the books I randomly pick out in a B&M bookstore in the fantasy section are written by female authors (and are in the YA category)
- Most people who have no meaningful body of work (either self or trad published) but who are still writing guides and making video's on Youtube about how to write books and get published seem to be (young) females.
To me it gives the distinct impression that fantasy / YA is currently seeing a huge surge of female authors being published, even though there's a lot of complaining that males are still published more often/faster (maybe that's in other genres), and that there are _many_ more females pursuing writing as a hobby than there are males.