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Originally Posted by Poker Clif
FWIW there are some weird cases of men dominating the top echelon of certain endeavors even though most of the participants are women. For example, a lot of the flute players in major US orchestras are men, even though women dominate the feeder system (US high school bands.) I haven't seen a good explanation for this.
Bridge would be the closest analogy (majority women players, 0 women in the top 100). I think the most logical explanation for lack of representation at the top is sociological. Developing people are conditioned to behave based on their assigned gender roles (men are traditionally rewarded for aggressive and competitive behavior, while women are traditionally chastised for aggressive and competitive behavior). These norms are enforced by both the ingroups (women -> women) and outgroups (men -> women), as well as by societal structures at large (gender segregation in competition).
As for why there are so few women in poker overall, that's due to the above as well as social norms and the compounding affects when gender dictates who plays what, and who's invited. You see boys at like 10yo who are playing 5 card draw telling a girl who's interested "this is a game for boys, you're not invited", directly mirroring norms they learned from media and those around them. Adults who learn to play poker from joining their friends' "Boy's Night". These things all compound, and I know for a fact that if you go to almost any table in the country as a woman, you're going to be reminded in one way or another of your gender, when it's implicit and accepted that men are welcome.
Last edited by mycorrhizae; 08-30-2018 at 06:34 PM.