Results of poll: Will Women's history land in a Martian crater in the near future?

Here are the results of the recent poll I conducted to determine which future landmark event in Women’s history readers think will happen last:

• 30% of the readers who answered the question believe the last event will be the United States electing a woman president

• 23% believe the last event will be a woman walking on the surface of Mars

• 7% believe the last event will be a woman named as CEO of "Mother" Merrill Lynch

• 38% believe the last event will be the International Astronomical Union (IAU) naming a crater on Mars in honor of a woman science fiction writer

Thanks to the 13 readers who participated in the poll. Considering the results, here is a suggested summer reading list for the androgynous members of IAU’s Task Group for Mars Nomenclature:

• Women of Wonder: The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s (1995), by Pamela Sargent

• Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s (1995), by Pamela Sargent

• Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction (1997),
by Jane Donawerth

• Martian Quest: The Early Brackett (2002), by Leigh Brackett

• The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (2002), by Justine Larbalestier

• Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (2002), by Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary

• “Spaceballs,” by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, July 16, 2002

• Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965 (2005), by Eric Leif Davin

• Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith (2008), by Catherine L. Moore

• Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008, two volumes), by Robin Reid

Pictured: SF author Judith Merril, the real “Mother" Merril.