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Originally Posted by DNSB
Sounds like the complaint from one of my grand-nieces: "Where have all the boys gone?" Most of the new YA fantasy she loves reading features female main characters with males as relatively minor characters. Admittedly, she also talked her parents into paying to stream the SuperM Beyond the Future concert so she may not have an unbiased viewpoint on gender balance.
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I mostly read fantasy and have noticed that a significant majority of the books have female main characters. Even though a significant majorty of the books are written by women, the author's gender doesn't seem to matter; the men also more often have a female main character. What bothers me is when they have women in unrealistic roles; twice now I've seen women blacksmiths.