Of the 1,027 constructors in the Shortz Era, 266 identify as women
This is the only chart here that shows women-only counts. Note that 2021 is a partial year.
Year | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
W+M | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 21 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 19 | 17 | 44 | 3 |
W+W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
W | 51 | 59 | 73 | 79 | 71 | 81 | 57 | 81 | 68 | 86 | 62 | 73 | 65 | 78 | 65 | 62 | 57 | 44 | 49 | 40 | 42 | 38 | 48 | 31 | 40 | 45 | 66 | 14 |
*** Click here for a larger chart showing comparisons against men. ***
For the rest of this page, puzzles are counted if there is at least one woman constructor.
Each link in the table below goes to a list of puzzles that make up that number so you can see who the constructors are.
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Collaboration puzzles are counted here as by Women if there is at least one woman constructor. One could argue that this over-states their contributions and the more accurate percentages are even lower. (See top chart.)
Percentages more than one third or less than one tenth are color coded.
1993 and 2021 are partial years so they are grayed out with no color coding.
We have photos of 149 of the 266 women constructors.