Diversity in Judging

[julieandrews]

I just found this on the Feminist SF blog.

World Fantasy Awards Judges Announced - oh look, all men
"[...]the World Fantasy Award judges are

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[mallory_blog]

not 5, ALL

[keyan_bowes]

I heard from someone in publishing (it might have been at Clarion) that nowadays awards make no difference to a book's sales...whereas in the old days they did, a great deal.

It seems to me that this may be because the awards are out of tune with the readers. Someone else said that book-buyers tend to be female, and older. If the field is still chasing the young male demographic that has long since vanished into the e-sphere, there may be a mismatch here.

Anyway - who selects the judges?