{"id":1081,"date":"2020-03-18T10:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T10:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/18\/why-weve-not-had-more-female-robins\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T08:05:02","slug":"why-weve-not-had-more-female-robins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/18\/why-weve-not-had-more-female-robins\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we\u2019ve not had more female Robins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/mar\/18\/80-years-of-robin-the-forgotten-history-of-the-most-iconic-sidekick\">Knowledgeable piece about Robin and &#8211; correctly &#8211; asking why there are so few female Robins:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why we\u2019ve not had more female Robins \u2013 or better served ones \u2013 is a symptom of a much wider problem. Of the 11 writers announced as contributing to DC\u2019s upcoming anniversary issue for Robin, only two are women: Devin Grayson and Amy Wolfram. Between January and March last year, women accounted for 16% of the credits on comics released by DC; of writers, only 13% were women. The studio celebrated 80 years of Batman last year, but in that time not a single woman has been at the helm of Batman or Detective Comics. Aside from Grayson\u2019s work on Nightwing and Gotham Knights, no female writer has ever written a Batman series. Given how many women are working on Batgirl, Catwoman and Batwoman, it would seem they are restricted to writing female heroes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledgeable piece about Robin and &#8211; correctly &#8211; asking why there are so few female Robins: Why we\u2019ve not had more female Robins \u2013 or better served ones \u2013 is a symptom of a much wider problem. Of the 11 writers announced as contributing to DC\u2019s upcoming anniversary issue for Robin, only two are women: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}