on wed 1-29-2003 Mia wrote:
>....the fact girls tend to do more poorly in math and science as they get
older.....
Do you have a source for this? I've never heard this before and it
would be interesting to see clinical evidence of decreasing mathematical
abilities in woman as a function of age.
There are several excellent women science fiction/fantasy writers,
Sharon Shinn, Margaret Weiss, Elizabeth Lynn, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Storm
Constantine, Laurel K. Hamilton, Emma Bull, Elizabeth Moon......These are
just off the top of my head, I could go on for the whole page. I have to
admit that half of the science fiction I have read in the past ten years was
written by a woman. Strong woman characters are becoming mainstream, see _The
Deed of Paksenarrion_ and _The Herris Serrano_ books by Elizabeth Moon.
John D. Barnato, OD