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14/ if "86.84% of YA SF that's published is written by women" is a TOE HOLD, then what does complete and fair representation of women in the field look like? 95% ? 99% ?https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301621428589076483 …
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15/ Also, how can you claim that publishing is "male dominated" when 78% of the staff at publishers are female? What I see is that there is a systemic problem where a female dominated industry seeks to exclude the Other (male) writers.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-publishing-is-overwhelmingly-white-and-female …
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16/ But women make up the majority of all staff at publishers, a majority of book buyers, a majority of new authors...https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301622862663606272 …
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17/ Yes, I agree that women hold internalized biases, and this is why I'm saying that we maybe need to consider affirmative action and quotas, not just on the books that publishers buy, but also on the staff that they hire.https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301623484754333696 …
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18/ good question. Unclear, but maybe not! Men did pass the 19th amendment, giving women the vote, and men used to run the publishing industry, but invited women in. So we have evidence that men invite in outsiders, but women do not. Need to fix thathttps://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301624186809483264 …
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19/ perhaps so! But back to the fact that women make up around 80% of the publishing staff and - surprise! - women make up about 80% of the YA SFF books that publishers choose to publish, even tho they only make up 50% of the population - how do we fix?https://twitter.com/elizabeth_case/status/1301625801666957312 …
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20/ the only hard SF I know of is being published by indy authors like
@KarlKGallagher ; big publishers seem to have foresaken the hot white core of SF for garbage https://twitter.com/GreenShootsS/status/1301628828171800577 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread
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where to start. over last 200 years, YA has been majority male authored. in the last 30 or so years, women have gained a toehold in the (male-dominated) publishing industry in YA, and regularly marketed or encouraged to publish as YA even when their books are not...
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YA is definitely pushing the field -- as you might guess, I have been thrilled to see a much broader diversity of characters and stories in SFF; often these stories are in YA novels written by women.
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