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Why are there so few women in the audiophile community? Do female audiophiles face the same adversities as women in tech?
by woah 12y ago
Why are there so few women in the audiophile community? Do female audiophiles face the same adversities as women in tech?
- wyager 12y ago> Do female audiophiles face the same adversities as women in tech? How would that work? There isn't even any opportunity to be excluded from being an audiophile. It's the exact same thing that accounts for a lot of the discrepancy between men and women in professional tech: the fact that men, on average, like gadgets more than women.
- lentil_soup 12y agoI really doubt men like gadgets more than women per se, it's a social/cultural/education thing that leads them to move away from those interests.
- renaudg 12y agoNo it's not. http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks.html http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks...
- lmm 12y agoIt could simply be women having less disposable money?
- meowface 12y agoIs your second question independent or leading from the first? If the latter, then you realize that just because there is a lack of certain demographics in a group does not necessarily mean it is due to adversities, right? There could be countless reasons. As for what those reasons are, tech enthusiast communities of all sorts tend to be predominantly male. I don't think it's anything particular to audio. I agree that I was a bit surprised at how overwhelmingly male the sample was, though.
- spopejoy 12y agoFinally a gender-bias I can get behind. That is, this finally proves women are smarter. Or at least less likely to spend 3-figure sums on an interconnect cable.
- stefantalpalaru 12y agoYou gathered all that from 2 data points?
- Cthulhu_ 12y agoI'd gamble it's because they're less into bragging about how much money they spent on audio equipment / dick measuring. But that's just my cynical point of view. I'm sure the distribution between men and women that can appreciate good music (and good music equipment) is much less skewed than men/women in tech; it's just the public part where they're not represented as much.
- slowmotiony 12y agoWhy are there so few women in the coal mining community? Do female coal miners face the same adversities as women in tech?
- king_jester 12y agoIt's always amazing how people repeat this coal mine idea: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/03/28/sexism-in-tech-not-a-problem-because-of-coal-mining-redditor-suggests/ http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/03/28/sexism-in-tech-not-...
- slowmotiony 12y agoSorry, I could not get through this cynical and pretentious piece.