Gender diversity on PianoClack

Picotin

This recent discussion made me realize that Pianoclak is most likely a men-only forum so far.

I'm wondering how that could be?

There are so many female pianists around and I can't see any gender barrier to the instrument.

Music schools are crowded by female students (probably far more than males) and yet I could not recognize any on this forum (neither on PW as far as I can remember)

Presuming that we are all driven by the same passion for the piano, I wonder that maybe the forum format is the barrier.

What do you think about it? Are we, certainly unwillingly, shy away female players from our conversations?

Is there anything we could do in order to improve global participation?

Just wondering about what I feel quite awkward.

CyberGene

I think there are many reasons with varying weight but mostly this is a spinoff forum with people who are predominantly from the DP forum of PW and since that's mostly a technical forum, I think men tend to like technical discussions much more than women.

Tyr

Even on PW there were too few female pianists i suppose.

Deleted

If I just judge forums by participation numbers, I would conclude, that men predominantly like to discuss nonliving things (pianos, motorcycles, guns, …) and women predominantly like to discuss living things (relationships, children, animals, …), with a small overlap at both sides.

That only becomes an issue, if you are convinced, that all humans are born identical and any measurable difference in preferences has to be attributed to discrimination based on biological features.

Picotin

Deleted That only becomes an issue, if you are convinced, that all humans are born identical and any measurable difference in preferences has to be attributed to discrimination

I have no issue there. I'm just sharing a reflection on a consideration I happened to realize.

Given that loving piano seems to be objectively cross gender, I just wonder why apparently only men actively discuss about it in forums.

That's it. It might well be the way humans behave and nothing more has to be said about it. Or otherwise I'm probably missing something.

vagfilm

Deleted If I just judge forums by participation numbers, I would conclude, that men predominantly like to discuss nonliving things (pianos, motorcycles, guns, …) and women predominantly like to discuss living things (relationships, children, animals, …), with a small overlap at both sides.

This is true. The other thing is that, in most cases, you can detect if a text was written by a man or a woman, and women don't like to hang out in men dominated forum (and vice-versa). And they will never enter a discussion on pivot length…

Tyr

It's not a secret that men and women doesn't share the same interests with the same intensity. 😉

CyberGene

Do you know an audiophile woman? 😀

Tyr

vagfilm And they will never enter a discussion on pivot length