Gender distribution on this forum

Coffee
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Hello,

Poll time :wink:
Results are anonymous but feel free to add a commentary if you so wish.

  • Female, I have posted at least once.
  • Male, I have posted at least once.
  • Other, I have posted at least once.
  • Female, I’ve been exclusively reading.
  • Male, I’ve been exclusively reading.
  • Other, I’ve been exclusively reading.
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FYI we do have this survey (500+ replies) from 2024

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Wow amazing! Thanks!
In this light maybe the new poll is unnecessary…

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A middle-aged cervelat fest. Not really surprising :nerd_face:

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Mate, maybe see a dr for that?

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So what is the male female split?

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@Phil,

IDK what to make of it but percentage wise there are clearly not many women on here :shaking_face:

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So let’s be welcoming and don’t assume particular gender/gender role in threads :grinning_face:

Edit: I think it’s not just that dimension, there’s probably an overrepresentation of IT people compared to general population (and those also tend to be gender imbalanced)

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Maybe we should give it more than one day before drawing conclusions. :wink:

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Surely you’re not suggesting that non-males are slow to respond?

I’ll see myself out.

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I maaaay be suggesting that non-males have a greater propensity to use their time not perpetually connected to an internet forum, though. :stuck_out_tongue:

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At this point even if female percentage triples or quadruples it would be sadly low…

We do have evidence that there are several women on here though, so there’s that :wink:

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On the Geneva meet-up, we’ve reached once 3 female participants on 8.
I know they read the form but may not post much.

In this forum, we often discuss strategies, statistics and other technical subjects.
Last time, the interest was more philosophical around the Why, ikigai or the purpose of being independent (FIRE).
I am not register on MMM forum but I’m wondering about the balance on these 2 categories of discussion.

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Not sure it should matter. At least at previous workplace looked like similar interest around those topic across gender (and looked like same proportion interested in personal finance)

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@dbu’s 2024 survey had males outnumbering females 5 to 1 (474 to 90), so close to the current distribution in your poll (so much for my gender theory of connectiveness to forums xD). January 2024 isn’t so far away so we still probably have a dominantly male userbase with a significant amount of females.

This poll will add the others as well as adding the participating/just viewing distinction. I’m curious to see how that’ll pan out.