[AGA-mcm] Re: Women in the hobby

["Ann Viverette" <annv777@houston.rr.com>]

I'll venture a guess that you could probably divide the hobbiests into 3 
(somewhat even) groups; men, women, and children. While the groups will not 
be of equal size, women will do almost all of the shopping for themselves, 
almost all of the shopping for the kids, and a some of the shopping for the 
men. That would equal two thirds pretty easily, so that stat sounds 
reasonable to me.

I'll also suggest that when it comes to a hobby, Mom or Wife or Girlfriend 
is likely to only get the specific thing she was told to get, for 
"surprises" are probably not all that welcome unless they are based on real, 
true knowledge of what is needed and what is a good deal, which is the realm 
of the actual hobbiest.

Ann -- who is very, very tired of shopping

> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:48:20 -0600
> From: Paul Krombholz <pkrombholz@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Women in the hobby.
> To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
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> > --- Phil Edwards <biotypical@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  Here's an interesting statistic for you.  2/3 of all
> > >  purchases in the
> > >  aquarium hobby are made by women.  A good bunch of those
> > >  are probably gifts
> > >  for their man, but if even half of those are interested
> > >  in the hobby then
> > >  we've got a huge demographic that we're missing out on.
> > >
> > >
> > >  Best,
> >  > Phil
> > >
>
> I wonder if the reasons why the women in the hobby got into it are
> the same, statistically, as the reasons why the men got into it.
> Perhaps a survey could be done.
>
> --
> Paul Krombholz in sunny, mild, central Mississippi


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