Oh, certainly, and given the wild inconsistency of numbers I've seen just for what percentage of stories published in F&SF are by women, there seems a pretty clear lack of dependable statistics. And once you get them, what do you do with them? I don't require F&SF to have the same acceptance rates for men and women if one group or the other isn't writing the kind of stories they want; that could be one cause of any bias. And what kinds of gendered writing get what kinds of reception in spec fic more broadly? Plus the numbers ought to be compared against other magazines, and against the field as a whole, etc, etc, etc . . . and that moves into a mode of feminism that other people do better than I do.
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