Gender statistics and the Newberys

[justice_turtle]

I got curious about the number of male versus female writers on the Newbery list, and did a little number-crunching. OM NOM STATISTICS. Well, not actually statistics in a mathematical sense, I don't think (I have not very much math training), but there are percentages and ratios under the cut. ^_^

( this post is long and full of numbers )

Feel free to discuss, critique, rework, graph-ify, or draw conclusions from my numbers! Conversation is awesome! But since I'm posting this publicly and it can be kind of a fraught topic, I will remind any would-be trolls who may happen by that I am the mod and I wield the banhammer. BOOM. ;-)