{"id":3639,"date":"2006-08-19T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T19:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/08\/19\/3639.html"},"modified":"2006-08-19T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T19:55:40","slug":"women-in-alternate-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/08\/19\/women-in-alternate-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in alternate history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of years ago, I wrote an entry about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/06\/11\/2081.html\">gender balance among authors of works nominated for the Sidewise Awards<\/a>, those being the annual awards for alternate-history science fiction.  There were a lot of comments there, and more in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrononaut.org\/log\/archives\/000367.html\">David Moles's entry<\/a> on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>(I had been under the misimpression that Ben R. wrote his fantabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allstarstories.com\/rosenbaum-notes.html\">zeppelin story<\/a> partly in response to that discussion, but now I see that he'd sold the story before that discussion.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I think I wasn't paying attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchronia.net\/sidewise\/\">Sidewise Awards<\/a> last year, but it turns out that there were two stories by women among the seven shortlisted works last year; and this year there are three works by women among the eight shortlisted works.<\/p>\n<p>I'm pleased.<\/p>\n<p>The total numbers of shortlisted works in any given year are so small that I wouldn't read too much into any one year's list; I wouldn't have posted my entry a couple of years ago if it had been just one year.  I was reacting to a multi-year pattern.  So I'm especially pleased to see two consecutive years of more female authors showing up on the lists.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, I wrote an entry about gender balance among authors of works nominated for the Sidewise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}