Statistics on publication of women authors
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Below are a variety of statistics about the gender of authors in particular collections, series, and titles.
Please add any statistics you have, or have generated. If you got the stats from somewhere, please cite to that source. If you generated them yourself, it would be great if you would cite to them with your name, or a commonly used nom de Internet.
Statistics on individual titles
See also
- Angry Black Woman, available at http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=332
- 2008 publication statistics for SF digests
- Broad Universe collects statistics; available at http://broaduniverse.org/stats.html . Stats include gender breakdowns for:
- Readers: Share of market;
- Editors & writers at various places;
- SFWA membership (2000 & 2007), HWA membership;
- Award recipients;
- reviews (reviewer & reviewee);
- books highlighted in trade press;
- Year's Best anthologies
- summary of Linville 2002 statistics
- Susan U. Linville, SF and Fantasy in the New Millennium: Women Publishing Short Fiction, SFWA Bulletin, Winter 2002 (reprinted at Strange Horizons)
- Random sampling (1760 attendees) of Millennium Philcon 2001 WorldCon membership roster: 47% of members were women (cited)
- SFWA 2001 "active membership": 38% women (cited)
- Nebulas 1990s: women received 47.5% (cited)
- Hugos 1990s: women received 32% (cited)
- 2001 Analog published 13% women
- 2001 Asimov's published 28% women
- 2001 F&SF published 19% women
- 2001 Realms of Fantasy published 33% women
- Linville then compiled a database of stories published in those four journals from 1980 to 2001, and also compiled data from male and female editors to examine admission statistics.
- Susan U. Linville, SF and Fantasy in the New Millennium: An Update, Strange Horizons, Aug. 20, 2007.
- Updated submission statistics for 2002-2007 still demonstrates a lower submission rate for women.