I wouldn't pin too much hopes on Book Clubs for generating discussions. I think the point of my post was overlooked to a degree - that being that 1) I noticed something that I've been working actively for months to address in my own reading, 2) I want to have a conversation or three about this here at some point in time.
I know, their history doesn't make it too promising.
But "optimism is a moral duty" and all that. 
But seriously, if the point of your post was only the gender of the authors discussed, then I have to say, female authors like Hobb, Wurts, Rawn, Elliot, Carey, Friedman, Zimmer Bradley, Rowling, Atwood,... have been mentioned and discussed on this board so far. If male authors were discussed a lot more, well, that's because male authors dominate the genres that are most popular here, and to increase the amount of female authors read would require either reading different genres or niches, or some kind of "positive discrimination" in your reading. As you are apparently doing yourself.
But yet in the wider "conversation" going on in SF/F circles, the female authors have become quite a bit more "important," I suppose one could say, in recent years and there's some interesting stuff transpiring in the short fiction and cross-genre areas that isn't getting much coverage on epic fantasy-dominated boards. You know me; I like to stir interest in the not-so-ubiquitious authors from time to time
And if it's "positive discrimination" (doubtful, considering that while I have read books written or co-edited by around 50 women this year, that's less than 20% of my total reading so far this year), then I'm glad I've decided to do it, since I've discovered some interesting takes on how to tell stories and such 
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
This board is severely lacking in discussion of female authors
- 12/09/2009 08:11:46 AM
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I think what you mean is this board is lacking in discussion of lesser-known authors...
- 12/09/2009 10:49:56 AM
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While part of that is true, part of it really deals with a thought when I glanced through the posts
- 12/09/2009 10:55:07 AM
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The world is severely lacking in famous female authors.
- 12/09/2009 02:53:03 PM
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Wanna bet?
- 13/09/2009 08:23:14 AM
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Incorrect.
- 15/09/2009 04:14:06 PM
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You might want to edit that...
- 15/09/2009 04:40:32 PM
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Actually, most of those authors are talked about on other boards and blogs
- 16/09/2009 12:22:46 AM
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... That doesn't actually change the truth-value of his statement. *NM*
- 16/09/2009 05:31:30 AM
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Is KJ Parker actually a woman?
- 16/09/2009 12:27:35 AM
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Probably.
- 16/09/2009 04:51:57 AM
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It is not uncommon in the publishing industry to pull tricks like that.
- 16/09/2009 11:19:04 AM
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female authors
- 12/09/2009 10:28:12 PM
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I discovered Morgan Llywellyn when I was in my late teens/early 20s
- 13/09/2009 08:24:15 AM
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None. Why in the world would you place a quota on gender? *NM*
- 12/09/2009 10:46:45 PM
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Who said anything about "quotas"?
- 13/09/2009 08:11:21 AM
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It can be inferred.
- 14/09/2009 12:45:18 AM
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it can only be inferred if you confuse the necessity employed.
- 19/09/2009 06:49:17 AM
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Mm.
- 19/09/2009 07:13:27 AM
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Everyone knows women can't write! They are by far inferior to men!
- 13/09/2009 01:42:16 AM
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- 13/09/2009 08:24:50 AM
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- 13/09/2009 08:24:50 AM
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Connie Willis, Susanna Clarke, Diana Wynne Jones, Megan Whalen Turner (to start with)
- 13/09/2009 01:47:17 PM
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I read mostly scfi these days and there just are not that many new female scfi writers
- 14/09/2009 04:28:31 PM
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Jaine Fenn and Liz Williams are two pretty decent recently-emerging SF writers. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 04:15:40 PM
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This post is severely lacking in discussion of male authors. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 04:42:23 PM
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