From the outset of her career, St. Clair was aware of her unusual role as a woman writing in a male-dominated field. An article she wrote for "Writer's Digest" in 1947, about selling stories to the science fiction market, begins: "Why is science fiction fun to write? At first blush, it doesn't seem attractive, particularly for a woman." When the World Science Fiction Convention was held in Oakland in 1954, the "Oakland Tribune" highlighted St. Clair as a local author by asking her to provide a "menu of the future." The back cover of her 1963 paperback novel "Sign of the Labrys" declared in large capital letters, "Women Are Writing Science-Fiction!" and continued: "Women are closer to the primitive than men. They are conscious of the moon-pulls, the earth-tides. They possess a buried memory of humankind's obscure and ancient past which can emerge to uniquely color and flavor a novel. Such a woman is Margaret St. Clair…."