I think the point of "it's fairly well-established" is that there have been studies. And that is definitely consistent with reality: are their more female novel

I think the point of "it's fairly well-established" is that there have been studies. And that is definitely consistent with reality: are their more female novelists, poets, or cryptographers? Your sample size of one is interesting, but not enough. (I, too, am a guy who did better on the verbal portion of the SAT.)