02 Where The Hell Are All The Women?!?!?
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This article is from the Internet Personals: Advice for Straights FAQ, by Dean Esmay esmay@syndicomm.com with numerous contributions by others.
02 Where The Hell Are All The Women?!?!?
They're here, they're here! You just can't see them!
Seriously, there are a whole LOT of women using Usenet personals.
You just don't hear much from them. Here's what's really going on:
Right now, there are a whole lot more men than women online. The last
I personally heard, the number just for the U.S.A. was something like
four men for every one woman, at least on the commercial services.
AOL's current statistics currently say that about 78% of their users
are male. Other published figures claim that only 10% of all internet
users are women (Article: _A Woman's Place? in Cyberspace_ by Kris
Jensen, Atlanta Journal Constitution, January 8, 1995). On the other
hand, Nielson Media Research announced in 1995 that 66% of internet
users are male, but that these males account for 77% of internet
usage (http://www.commerce.net/), while in January of 1996, Emerging
Technologies Research Group said that 39% of those accessing the
internet are female, but that men are much more likely to use things
like Usenet and the World Wide Web--but with twice as many women as
men saying they plan on trying things like the Web in the future
(http://etrg.findsvp.com/features/newinet.html).
How accurate these or any other numbers are, or how exactly they can
be applied to users of personal ads I cannot say. But clearly, there
are significantly more men hanging out online than women right now.
Compounding this aggravation seems to be that, for whatever reason,
women tend to be less comfortable posting ads than responding to
them. There are many theories as to why this is, and you can pick
any or all that appeal to you. Whatever your favorite explanation,
the fact still remains that for the most part, men post, and women
respond.
But make no mistake: despite all this, there are still an awful lot
of women out there. No question about it.
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