The science fiction I’ve been reading is about warriors, machines, disease, battles, and dealing with cataclysmic disasters. It’s heavy on battles, light on women. Women are often depicted as sexual objects, or bitches. They are militarized, with no traditional feminine qualities.
It makes this genre unappealing to many women. It’s like how computer science started out as the province of women, and now only 13% of software programmers are female. The numbers haven’t changed much in 40 years.
Isn’t it time for a change?