Re: Men vs Women on Conlang
| From: | Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 20:12 |
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Mike Poxon wrote:
> One possibility for the sexual imbalance is that since many conlangs are
> closely allied with fantasy or SF, and this is read overwhelmingly by males
> (never mind why - that's another question!) then it's us chaps who have the
> greater incentive. I don't think it's anything to do with linguistics, other
> than fantasy linguistics as a subset of fantasy writing.
There are 72 people at the department of linguistics at Stockholm Uni. 40 of them
are women, which is about half. I'm pretty sure that figure
applies to linguists worldwide as well.
So it's got nothing to do with linguistics at least.
Daniel Andreasson