Dragon Award Gender Stats

Counts by finalist, only including the story categories (books & comics).

For ease of data collection and verification, I counted by pronoun used and checked against a quick web search. This may still contain errors. Each author is counted separately, so a book with two authors has two entries.

Year	group	he/him	she/her	they/them
2016	1.33%	78.67%	20.00%
2017	1.11%	81.11%	17.78%
2018		79.45%	20.55%
2019		70.15%	29.85%
2020		72.60%	27.40%
2021		67.14%	30.00%	2.86%
2022		64.79%	33.80%	1.41%
Grand Total	0.39%	73.80%	25.24%	0.58%

Books, comics,

Looking at books only.

Year	he/him	she/her	they/them
2016	75.00%	25.00%
2017	79.31%	20.69%
2018	75.51%	24.49%
2019	65.96%	34.04%
2020	58.14%	41.86%
2021	63.83%	34.04%	2.13%
2022	59.09%	38.64%	2.27%
Grand Total	68.75%	30.65%	0.60%

Books

Looking at the headline categories (Best Science Fiction, Best Fantasy Best Horror).

Year	he/him	she/her
2016	78.95%	21.05%
2017	80.00%	20.00%
2018	90.48%	9.52%
2019	63.16%	36.84%
2020	36.84%	63.16%
2021	52.63%	47.37%
2022	58.82%	41.18%
Grand Total	66.91%	33.09%

Headline

For context, here are the stats for Winners (2022 not included, obviously).

Year	he/him	she/her
2016	76.92%	23.08%
2017	87.50%	12.50%
2018	81.25%	18.75%
2019	75.00%	25.00%
2020	75.00%	25.00%
2021	72.73%	27.27%
Grand Total	78.95%	21.05%

Winners, books and comics

And the headline categories:

Year	he/him	she/her
2016	3
2017	4
2018	4
2019	2	1
2020	1	2
2021	2	1
Grand Total	16	4