My experience has been that if there's one female in a group of six, most people will call it 'multi-gender', while I call it 'male-heavy'.

Over the last few years a gamestore in the local mall, before it closed recently, used to sponsor various 'gaming days, where groups could play games both in & out side (in the mall corridor) the store.

For general board-gaming there were usually abut 20% female w/ no more than 25% althou women generally preferred 'empire-builder' type games over wargames.

For rpg-type stuff females were rare, never more than 10% &  the 'Magic the Gathering' groups (they had their own 'day') were almost always exclusively male, althou, every once in a while, there was a female there.

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On Fri, 2/6/15, Peter Berghold <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Why I hate Traveller
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, February 6, 2015, 7:50 AM

 I
 don't actively play the game anymore but I haven't
 given up on it altogether.  In fact in my pursuit of
 becoming a science fiction author I use the Traveller rules
 in all its versions as a framework for sanity attempting to
 keep the science in science fiction.  
 Of course, as an aside, my son
 bought me a book for Christmas entitled "The Physics of
 the Impossible" by Michio Kaku.  Great book.  Mind
 bending in fact.  Has changed my position of what is and is
 not plausible for future tech.
 The group I used to play with back
 in 1978 when I was stationed in Groton CT in the Navy was a
 mix of genders.  Never thought of RPGs as being gender
 biased.
 When I got on
 the USS Cushing after I was transferred from Groton the RPG
 crew was all male... but in those days women did not serve
 aboard warships. That fact definitely had more to do with
 the gender makeup of our Traveller group.
 My son was discharged from the US
 Navy this past July and reports to me that the RPG gamers on
 his ship (USS George Washington) was definitely multi-gender
 with the GM being a woman.  
 So I don't get this idea that
 RPG playing is somehow gender biased...

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 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
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 On Fri, 2/6/15, Evyn MacDude <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:

  Subject: Re: [TML] Why I hate Traveller

  To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com

  Date: Friday, February 6, 2015, 1:24 AM

  On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at

  11:37 AM, The Sayat Menace

  <xxxxxx@earthlink.net>

  wrote:

  >

  > Below.

  >

  > I met this game and

  this 'universe' a long time ago. It was always
 a

  boys' thing. I dealt. We all did, those who had to

  deal.

  >

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Hum, that isn't my
 experiance, Traveller

  has been the one game that I

  always have had

  a broad selection of genders willing and eager to

  play.

  Now the

  TML, is a different story...

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 Well, TML has always been loaded w/  a lot of
 'grognards' , set in our ways, but there was a time,
 back when the Higginbothams were around, where Cynthia, as I
 recall, actually posted more frequently than her husband.

 Still, my experience is that most rpg's, and gaming in
 general, is heavily weighted towards males.

  =======================================================================

  > Twenty years ago I

  proposed the Pelvic-Mount Plasma Gun, well within the
 scope

  of the rules at the time. I thought it was a shake-up,
 a

  hard josh, or at least an elbow-jostle, to the

  'trend' at the time. I was wrong: I was already
 a

  crazy loony alone thing. That wasn't a
 'trend'.

  It was REALITY.

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Is lunacy,

  especially self assigned Lunacy such a bad thing?

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 Since most Trav miniatures depicting Battledress usually
 have an PGMP or FGMP mounted on the shoulder, what's the
 big deal about mounting it elsewhere?

 Also, my parents, both veterans BTW, both thought gaming was
 silly, perhaps even to the point of irrational, but so
 what?

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