We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

Women are under-represented in science in general, and in the areas where women are working with men, they tend to have supporting roles; they're rarely in leadership roles. In the Academies of Science , if you look in the US, the numbers are appalling.

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.