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Fixed that for you!For the same reason more men don't voluntarily spend entire afternoons shopping for shoes.
Not to be sexist, but just to be realistic: The female gender is not nor ever has been interested in history or war.
Give or take a tenth of a percent, 99.9% of men don't play these type of games and probably 90% of guys aren't reading history books, if they read at all. My wife thinks wargamers are generally schizoids living in an insular world from what she has seen (she has a masters in psych).For the same reason more men don't spend entire afternoons shopping for shoes.
You only add to the perception that women *have* to do these things by using the word "under-represented". It's not hard to imagine women would like to concentrate on nurturing a family, I just don't know when or why we transitioned to believing it is wrong for them to do so. When pointy heads start talking about how 50% of the CEOs, half of world leaders, half the starting roster for the Dallas Cowboys etc. etc. "need" to be women, I guess I don't understand. I'm not at all concerned that men are under-represented in the ranks of airline attendants or professional sports cheerleaders.It's hard to decide how much of the under-representation of women in the hobby is due to social pressure.
In my area (I teach computer science in a university), the number of women among students is desperately small, yet we repeatedly observe that young women do just as well on grades as young men, and the top researchers in my institution include about as many women as men. But the computer is typically associated with nerds and obsessive teenagers, and is not seen as leading to attractive carreers by young women - and some institutional communication attempts I've seen to try and correct theses tendencies only make the gap worse, IMHO.
I don't know how similar the situation is in the hobby. I've never met a female wargamer, and my wife will play lots of computer games, but nothing approaching wargames, be they paper or computer (even though she is among a similar minority to what I described in her job - mathematics has a very similar gender bias as computer science, possibly even worse).
Aside from the fact you pulled those numbers out of thin air, I'd disagree that men are out of touch with world history. If they dont' read, they certainly watch one or two shows on TV. I'm constantly surprised by the number of men I've worked with in civilian locales who had at least a perfunctory understanding of 20th Century military history, at least as it pertains to Canada, the US, Britain - probably because most of them had relatives who served. As we retreat from the Second World War, and our conflicts involve fewer of our soldiers, this may change, but I don't think we're there yet.Give or take a tenth of a percent, 99.9% of men don't play these type of games and probably 90% of guys aren't reading history books, if they read at all. My wife thinks wargamers are generally schizoids living in an insular world from what she has seen (she has a masters in psych).
Considering that the vast majority of year 1-4 college students in America could not tell you when Nazi Germany declared ware on Poland, nor when Pearl Harbor occurred; the fact that this same demographic could not correctly name the major combatant countries of World War 2, nor tell you correctly what year the war ended; I am inclined to believe there is a large gulf between 80s babies, 90s babies and millenials and anything that has to do with WW2 as a topic.Aside from the fact you pulled those numbers out of thin air, I'd disagree that men are out of touch with world history. If they dont' read, they certainly watch one or two shows on TV. I'm constantly surprised by the number of men I've worked with in civilian locales who had at least a perfunctory understanding of 20th Century military history, at least as it pertains to Canada, the US, Britain - probably because most of them had relatives who served. As we retreat from the Second World War, and our conflicts involve fewer of our soldiers, this may change, but I don't think we're there yet.
I see now where your problem lies: Your wife has a Masters in Psych.Give or take a tenth of a percent, 99.9% of men don't play these type of games and probably 90% of guys aren't reading history books, if they read at all. My wife thinks wargamers are generally schizoids living in an insular world from what she has seen (she has a masters in psych).
That was nearly 50 years ago. Today about half of grad students in history, and probably about 40% of faculty, are women.I amend my former statement. It is certainly true that "the female gender" is not interested in the history "of war". That is not to say they aren't interested in the "social" aspects of history. Dressing up at colonial Williamsburg and the like is about social history, not war. Women are interested in anthropology and the like as it pertains to the "social" aspects of history. I still say that war history is an uninteresting subject to women in general. Minoring in history back at Marquette in the late sixties there was not one female in any of the classes for junior and senior year. Not one.
Frick'in hilarious, they turned history of warfare into a bunch of kooky leftist weirdisms. How can they do this with a straight face? They have completely lost it in their Fervor for insane propaganda. OMG, what a bunch of idiot losers.Look here.
https://history.duke.edu/research/military-war-society
Duke's Military War Society has 9 faculty.
7 are women.