My experience (especially from feedback we received from our podcast, Galactic Suburbia, which discusses these issues in relation to SF and fantasy a LOT) is that men generally believe that they read (and correspondingly, review) a much higher percentage of women than they actually do.
Which is why stopping to crunch the numbers is so important - we've had such wonderful responses from so many men who were genuinely shocked to realise how unbalanced their reading was, and have been working to do better, and often to publicly communicate their discoveries to other readers.
As another commenter said, sometimes just THINKING about it makes all the difference. Because most people don't.
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Which is why stopping to crunch the numbers is so important - we've had such wonderful responses from so many men who were genuinely shocked to realise how unbalanced their reading was, and have been working to do better, and often to publicly communicate their discoveries to other readers.
As another commenter said, sometimes just THINKING about it makes all the difference. Because most people don't.
Tansy RR