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Subject: Re: Women & the CCC

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 17:12:19 12/10/98

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On December 10, 1998 at 12:27:09, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>On December 09, 1998 at 22:44:57, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>
>>Since the time I have been a member here I cannot recall ever seeing a Female,
>>woman or Lady ever post here. Are there any female members, and if there are,
>>then were are they ?
>>
>>Or is this just a boys Club :-)
>
>Judging from the names of all of the CCC members, I
>would say that less than 1% are females.
>

This would be difficult for me. I can not tell a non-Spanish male name from a
non-Spanish female one. I have wondered more than once about how many women are
in CCC.

>This is not all that different from our retail chess
>customer base:
>
>From January through September we communicate with men
>95% of the time. From October through December (holiday
>season) 75% of our contacts are with women buying for
>their fathers, brothers, sons, nephews, uncles, or some
>other male in their lives.
>
>We do not have data defining the difference between regular
>chess and computer chess customers, but I would say that
>the computer aspect skews the results even more toward the
>male.
>
>Regards, Steve (ICD/Your Move)



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