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Again, I wonder why?

Apparently, on the East Coast this is not the case. Kentucky and Colorado just might have different mindsets. - David Lyga

Most women I know (myself included) are tactile in nature who like to create and work with their hands.

While not quite a gear head, I'm certainly OCD when it comes to my art and require learning all I can about all areas. I also have a mild shopping problem... :)

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Originally Posted by David Lyga

Again, I wonder why?

Apparently, on the East Coast this is not the case. Kentucky and Colorado just might have different mindsets. - David Lyga

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What evidence do you have to back this up? I would say the posts so far speak on a global basis.

There is a photo store by me that has been there for over 60 years on the southside of Chicago and is run by 2 women..

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Originally Posted by summicron1

women are smart.

duh.

they do have one weakness -- they tolerate us.

more seriously, i suspect you need to ask a sociologist, but it is probably related to the same cause of all the customers at Sears tool department being men.

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No, they just think that they are smarter. :whistling: However women who enjoy photography are more into composition than the hardware.

I have lived in the NorthEast (CT, NYC, BOSTON, PHiLA) for all my life. I have been going to camera shows since the early 80s. I have been going to camera stores since 1964. This is what I have experienced in that time. Interesting (and happily enlightening) to find differently. Smarter or not smarter than us? I think that women have an equal mental capacity but, at least culturally and maybe genetically, they do think differently for the most part. This can be both good and bad but, essentially, 'good' in that there is a social need to round things out in life. I do not want a world run exclusively by either men or women.

But, again, have I been blind, willfully biased, unknowingly 'ingoring' women? I think not. That is my answer to 'how do I back this up', cliveh. - David Lyga

It was the same when I taught in Miami, FL, as well. I also attend the regional and national conferences for SPE, the Society for Photographic Education. All of these have a 3 to 1 ratio in my experience.

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Originally Posted by Greg Davis

It was the same when I taught in Miami, FL, as well. I also attend the regional and national conferences for SPE, the Society for Photographic Education. All of these have a 3 to 1 ratio in my experience.

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3 to 1 ratio of what?

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Originally Posted by David Lyga

I have lived in the NorthEast (CT, NYC, BOSTON, PHiLA) for all my life. I have been going to camera shows since the early 80s. I have been going to camera stores since 1964. This is what I have experienced in that time. Interesting (and happily enlightening) to find differently.

Have I been blind, willfully biased, unknowingly 'ingoring' women? I think not. That is my answer to 'how do I back this up', cliveh. - David Lyga

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No, you are not blind, but we are talking about now, not then.

Then, as now. I attend the Fort Washington, PA camera show three times a year and it is the SAME. I do not choose it to be that way but that is what it is.

And not only at the shows. Le'ts face it: on this board and on photo.net it is the same thing. Sure there are women but I'll bet there are more than ten men for every female on these boards. - David Lyga