But Janice, how come you're not equally eager to get to the bottom of why women tend to sweep the sonnet competitions, which is even more extraordinary when you consider the male-dominated membership roster? If your goal is diversity, the lack of men winning the sonnet competitions should concern you as well, yet, when the women won, everyone, as I recall, was delighted and almost seemed to celebrate the women's triumph. Perhaps that was a bit condescending. But it's no more diverse when women take all the prizes than when men do ... unless you start with the assumption that the deck is so stacked against women that an absence of men is merely a chance event, while an absence of women is business as usual.
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