I was delighted to learn Andre Norton was female: when I first found her books as a teen, I assumed she was male, as, at the time, I only know 'Andre' as a man's name (I'm British, and it's rare here. The only Andre I knew of was the [male] conductor Andre Previn.) She was a fine writer and she gets continued recognition via the award named for her. I don't see as much scholarship devoted to her as to some men (Heinlein!), though. And C S Friedman is a wonderful writer. But when was the last time you saw one of her books reviewed in Locus? Saw her honoured at a major convention or cited as an influence by a current big name? It's not that we aren't here: we are, there are a fair number of us. It's that we are often overlooked, marginalised and forgotten by the wider sff culture. I don't mind this at all for myself, but when it comes to writers of the talent of Friedman and Cherryh, I find it infuriating and frustrating and, yes, wrong.