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  Of course the odds of a woman writing such a book are 
  significantly smaller, simply because there are much fewer 
  female programmers than male programmers.
If you are talking about P(book written by female|book written by programmer). I was talking about P(such a book written by female|such a book written by programmer).

Which implies I assume P(female programmer writing such a book) / P(male programmer writing such a book) > P(male programmer writing book) / P(female programmer writing book). Also P(female programmer writing such a book|female programmer writing book) > P(male programmer writing such a book|male programmer writing book)

  So what aspects of it are female specific?
None. There are aspects more likely to originate from a female. As you say: female heroine. As you say: caring about education of children. You only need to look at the gender ratio in primary school teachers to affirm the latter.


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