/lit/ - Literature

I've been reading "The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction " and so far, going through 1/3 of the stories, I'm surprised that most of the main characters are females, even though only one writer is a woman (so far.) Out of twelve stories, only the first one was written by a female (and it sucked ass) and only four stories have a male protagonist.

If I go to older collections, the amount of female writers is the same, but most of the main characters are guys. What the fuck happened? Is it easier to publish female-centered stories? Has this genre also fallen into the politically correctness?