{"id":3023,"date":"2011-06-14T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/06\/14\/and-i-thought-science-fiction-had-a-bad-gender-balance\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T20:03:23","slug":"and-i-thought-science-fiction-had-a-bad-gender-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/06\/14\/and-i-thought-science-fiction-had-a-bad-gender-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"And I thought science fiction had a bad gender balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/gender-difference-in-dc-reboot.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"342\" alt=\"of 160 creators involved in the DC reboot only 3 are female\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs you might have noticed DC comics is rebooting its entire superhero line and Tim Hanley at <cite>Bleeding Cool<\/cite> took some time to look at how it all worked out, gender balance wise. Turned out of the <em>one hundred and sixty<\/em> named creators, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2011\/06\/12\/gendercrunching-the-dc-relaunch\/\">only <em>three<\/em> were female<\/a>&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNot that it was much different before the reboot; Gail Simone is the only truly high profile female creator working on a DC superhero title right now if I remember correctly. See, science fiction is not the only field that has problems with its gender balance&#8230; It&#8217;s always been bad in superhero comics, but as bad as this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have noticed DC comics is rebooting its entire superhero line and Tim Hanley at Bleeding Cool took some time to look at how it all worked out, gender balance wise. Turned out of the one hundred and sixty named creators, only three were female&#8230; Not that it was much different before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,94,22],"tags":[1374],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","category-feminism","category-science-fiction","tag-dc-comics-reboot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}