Elizabeth Moon blogs about continuing gender inequality in fiction publishing and marketing

She makes some excellent points. It Ain't Equal Til It's EqualThanks to catrambo for linking to it.I commented there, ending with the following question:I wonder how much of this is mens' own taste and how much is the way things are and have been marketed for so long that it's difficult to change? Can we educate boys that stories about girls and women don't have "cooties?"(And yes, to an extent, I believe this is happening. But we have a long way to go.)