Blog Overlord Post #4: Statistics on the visibility of Women in SciFi<\/p>\n
Here is the beginning of some research that I am doing in which I have compiled the names listed across various rankings of \u201cBest SciFi Authors\u201d in an attempt to gain insight into how the public views the Female authors of Science Fiction. Ill put the data that I have so far below. Overall I\u2019ve found that amongst internet rankings Women make up about 9% of the spots on \u201cBest Sci Fi Authors of all time\u201d lists. This is disproportionately small to the fact that 15% of all Sci Fi writers are estimated to have been Female (Lisa Yaszek, \u201cThe Future is Female\u201d Introduction). This 9% figure is also extremely small to the percentage of women that have been named Grandmasters of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Of the 38 recipients of this prestigious award, 9 have been women, which amounts to 24% (Andre Norton (1983)\u00a0<\/span>Ursula K. Le Guin (2002)\u00a0<\/span>Anne McCaffrey (2004)\u00a0<\/span>Connie Willis (2011)\u00a0<\/span>C.J. Cherryh (2015)\u00a0<\/span>Jane Yolen (2016)\u00a0<\/span>Lois McMaster Bujold (2019) Nalo\u00a0<\/span>Hopkinson (2020) \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Mercedes Lackey (2021)).<\/span>My final project will look into some of the history of Science fiction and venture into why these discrepancies occur.<\/p>\n Overview of my findings so far:<\/p>\n