Hobbies women wish men were more into:
1. Pole dancing
2. Skincare
3. Sewing
4. Yoga
5. Dancing and musical theatre
6. Cross-stitching
7. Cooking
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-hobbies-women-wish-men-were-more-into-pole-dancing-yoga-and-cooking-a7422391.htmlive been trying to promote chess among ladies from some time now along with my team so i created another team called
😎Kool And The Girls💃
lichess.org/team/kool-and-the-girlswe encourage and urge all ladies here on lichess to join it and vote for a lady leader to help us in this project please
Yeah, I think on purely emotional level I'm going to agree with #17. As a guy, if I walked to an event with 2 guys and 100+ women (or people older/younger than me, or all dressed in carnival clothes, or etc. easily & noticeably different), I'd intuitively question if I was in the right place, even before the law of large numbers comes into play with one or another form of rudeness (which I'd also expect somewhat in these circumstances).
No matter what the event is about.
I seriously doubt the "written by men" explanation OTOH, I've had lot of female classmates supprass me in academic performance and competitions alike.
Actually, my sister is the person who taught me to play chess. She didn't (and still doesn't) know theory at all, but she can calculate combinations like she's Bobby Fischer. The reason I started learning about chess strategy was to counteract her crazy calculation skills.
to the biology toting posters, agriculture has had a long period of time to shape cultural evolution, if not even biological.
Also, using imagined scenarios of gender role in the hunter-gatherer period may be good for generating hypotheses, they are not proofs in themselves. "Biological" psychology may not be far from social engineering, when used that way, just not with the same values or agenda....
Another point, testosterone. Is it about aggressiveness? In animal societies, of the pyramidal type, the most aggressive i think, are those with lower testosterone levels in their bloods. I may be out of date on my knowledge about endocrine psychology, but i do think that testosterone does play a role in social imagery of self in a pyramidal structure, such as tournaments, the importance of that image toward behavior decisions. But the actual chess game, can be played with many attitudes, i think. As i get older, winning becomes more and more of a theatrical stance, i am more curious about whether that moves will end up being a better move toward ultimately winning for the side i'm dealt with, than actually winning, i'll be happy to learn it was not a good move...
And men lose testosterone levels as they get older. They may cling to male supremacist beliefs nonetheless, but the biology does not follow. or i may have scrambled too many concepts together. always a possibility.
As a woman, I didn't play chess until I was introduced to it, watching my boyfriend watch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqaA4Zv9rA0&list=PLssNbVBYrGcCg2rWduKyJ1dmOMHbuBYXl kind of sparked my interest and even THEN I had to kind of pressure my man into explaining how the pieces moved and other rules. . Before that, I knew there was a board game called chess, but for all I knew it might have been like trouble, sorry or uno. I think a lot of ladies would play more chess if they knew about it.
I'm a 29 y.o. woman and I found hanging pawns channel on my own 2 months ago. I study languages but I'm too obsessed with chess now. I like being competitive on these sites
One of my many other hobbies is fishing which has also a single-digit percent quota of women. So chess and fishing are the bottom, even boxing attracts more women. Another -at first glance pretty „male“- card game named „Skat“: a third are women playing in Bavaria.
I don’t really know, but I think chess seems to be made for nerds, and there we men prevail.
PS: one could also point out with a twinkle that one has to be quiet... (chess & fishing)
Wondering "Why" is kinda useless. Why there are way more women on dancing? Why combat sports are mostly male dominated? Execpt things like where fighting element has been removed.
There are loads of "on the average" differences on what women and men do. And as long people make those choises because they like to not because someone else expect thme to do so : who cares.
I really encourage more users to share their thoughts into this thread!
While I'm a male, I'd rather not discuss to why the reason for this exists, but rather share my view that I think the game would benefit more if women shared their view of the game.
Yes, it probably wouldn't be recieved all too well at first, but if women and men do think differently it would certainly help to open new doors of chess thinking. Perhaps that is just what the game needs to shorten the gap and inspire more females to begin/stay.
