http://forums.alpinezone.com/61759-forty-one-percent-skiers-female.html
this thread got me thinking........why are there so few women on not just this forum, but ski forums in general. Severine and Trekchick are regular contributors, Mogul Queen and SkiDiva pop in now and again, MRGisevil is sorely missed.
If 41% of skiers are women, where are they on the ole skiing intrawebs???
It's really not as simple as, chicks don't dig message boards. I'm a regular on the www.gatheringofthevibes.com message board. It's essentially a board of jamband / grateful dead type music fans. I've met countless people over the years through there to party with at music festivals or pre/post game celebration at concerts. At least once a month I'm hanging with friends I've met on there catching music somewhere. It is a very busy place, the traffic is easily ten times that of alpinezone.
The split of male to female on the gatheringofthevibes board is pretty much 50-50. Out of the top 30 posters; all with over 2000 posts in less than a years time as the board was reset last fall, 15 are men, 15 are women.
Why is that not the case here on alpinezone? If not 50-50, why do you suppose it's not at least 60-40 as opposed to the 97-3 that it is. Women clearly spend a lot of time on social sites on the net, perhaps even more so than men.
Greater female involvement here would be much welcomed.
this thread got me thinking........why are there so few women on not just this forum, but ski forums in general. Severine and Trekchick are regular contributors, Mogul Queen and SkiDiva pop in now and again, MRGisevil is sorely missed.
If 41% of skiers are women, where are they on the ole skiing intrawebs???
It's really not as simple as, chicks don't dig message boards. I'm a regular on the www.gatheringofthevibes.com message board. It's essentially a board of jamband / grateful dead type music fans. I've met countless people over the years through there to party with at music festivals or pre/post game celebration at concerts. At least once a month I'm hanging with friends I've met on there catching music somewhere. It is a very busy place, the traffic is easily ten times that of alpinezone.
The split of male to female on the gatheringofthevibes board is pretty much 50-50. Out of the top 30 posters; all with over 2000 posts in less than a years time as the board was reset last fall, 15 are men, 15 are women.
Why is that not the case here on alpinezone? If not 50-50, why do you suppose it's not at least 60-40 as opposed to the 97-3 that it is. Women clearly spend a lot of time on social sites on the net, perhaps even more so than men.
Greater female involvement here would be much welcomed.
