tough to make a call -- I'm in a field where finding decent women writers is rather tough (science/tech writing that ISN'T biology-focused), and even if I go out of my way to find a balance, sometimes it just ain't there.
That said, I am sure that it's come up in their internal discussions that there's a marked lack of females writing to a distinctly female genre. Not that men can't write decent women's roles, but that things like game-play might be different if a different gender was included.
Since, AFAICT, he didn't explain that they had a tough time finding a female writer, I'd stipulate that maybe they didn't try very hard. But at the same time I'd be rather annoyed (although maybe better at dealing with it), if I got letters accusing me of sexism because I don't hire female feature writers (which actually isn't true -- I think 80% of my regular writers are women, actually. ha. But most of them don't write in the feature well.)
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That said, I am sure that it's come up in their internal discussions that there's a marked lack of females writing to a distinctly female genre. Not that men can't write decent women's roles, but that things like game-play might be different if a different gender was included.
Since, AFAICT, he didn't explain that they had a tough time finding a female writer, I'd stipulate that maybe they didn't try very hard. But at the same time I'd be rather annoyed (although maybe better at dealing with it), if I got letters accusing me of sexism because I don't hire female feature writers (which actually isn't true -- I think 80% of my regular writers are women, actually. ha. But most of them don't write in the feature well.)