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RiotNrrd (プロフィールを表示) 2006年10月11日 20:02:20
Actually, if you look at who is logged into Lernu at any given time, there is generally a 3-1 or 4-1 ratio of men to women. Obviously, it fluctuates constantly, but generally the number of men logged in outnumbers the number of women logged in by a considerable margin.
There may be reasons that these numbers are skewed (maybe Lernu doesn't appeal to women as much and the women learn eo elsewhere, or maybe men are more prone to learn online and women do their learning offline, or... etc.), and that in reality the gender split is dead even. Maybe. I'm more willing to bet that the general tendency of lots more men to be logged into Lernu than women at any moment is indicative of the general population.
Lunombrulino (プロフィールを表示) 2006年10月12日 14:51:06
You can read the full article at http://esperanto-usa.org
From this article, one could get the impression that young female esperantists are lacking in the U.S., and that young male esperantists are lacking in Europe and Asia (or at least in the Ukraine).
Okay, the answer seems obvious to me.
Finito (プロフィールを表示) 2006年10月12日 22:00:00
RiotNrrd:Where did you get this information?
Isn't it so that more men than women use computers (which are a little bit abstract tools) and webservices like Lernu.net?
I think it has nothing to do with number of men and women who speak Esperanto. In fact, I know personally more Esperanto-speaking women than men, but in my opinion women seem to be more interested in real-life communication, personal contacts than those made only by means of Internet. Although I would say that the number of women and men I meet "virtually" while taking part in Skype-conferences in Esperanto is almost the same.
fojo (プロフィールを表示) 2006年10月13日 12:22:42
erinja (プロフィールを表示) 2006年10月13日 14:17:44
In Western Europe it's a little more equal, but I've only attended a couple events there and I wasn't exactly counting up males vs females, but I remember that it wasn't so overwhelmingly male like it tends to be here (at least here on the US east coast). In Eastern Europe - Russia, Ukraine, etc - women widely outnumber men, just as that article said. I am not sure why this is but it has been my experience that people in different cultures decide to learn Esperanto for widely different reasons. My friend did an informal poll to this effect - most Americans said they were learning because they're interested in languages or interested in meeting people from other countries; many Brazilians mentioned religious or spiritual reasons in addition to the international communication; many Europeans learn it to take part in the fun events (and other reasons too, I'm sure).
In any case, the moral of the story is, if you want to use Esperanto to meet women, start to frequent Russian Esperanto groups!