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This could just be titled “Nearly half of all new people are women!”
by blcknight 5y ago
This could just be titled “Nearly half of all new people are women!”
- vulcan01 5y agoFirst sentence of the article, emphasis mine: > Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study.
- rory 5y agoCould it? The article says: > For decades, other surveys have found that around 10% to 20% of American gun owners were women. ~15% -> ~47% is a pretty notable demographic shift IMO. Imagine if the same shift happened for new software engineers.
- Supermancho 5y agoI dont think that's communicating the same trend.
- moate 5y agoNot so fast! When it comes to demographics for groups, things don't always break down along populations. Think about how there we don't see women as ~51% of computer engineers. That said, previous numbers show that gun ownership by gender was about 2:1 in favor of men (45% of American men own guns vs 19% of women). This does show a pretty big spike in the number of women purchasing guns.