When you have a (set of) topic(s) that are overwhelmingly discussed by either gender, it does not seem irrelevant to ask why this is, and whether the reasons should prompt a change in site policy or culture.
Like all topics on ET?
It's not that homogeneity is necessarily evidence that something is wrong - there may be a variety of entirely acceptable reasons (or at least reasons that are beyond the power of the editors to change). But it should be cause for some introspection on a not too irregular basis.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Patience with people telling me what to write or not write gone now.
So I went and did that.
