I appreciate the sentiments expressed by Petra and Jeanette, and am certainly not ruling out a female moderator in the future.
However, it should be noted that potential moderators are chosen based on a number of factors and criteria, and their gender is certainly NOT one of those criteria.
It should also be noted that we're not currently recruiting
any additional moderators at this time - male or female
As far as gender equality for IYA2009 is concerned, IceInSpace is more than happy to have articles, events, activities etc that work towards this and we'll do our utmost to help out, promote, advertise, sponsor etc.