Since I put up a donate button on the Gridwatch website*, 138 people have donated
Only 3 of them were women.
Can someone explain why, aginst all the teachings of the politically correct femisnists, gridwatch should apparently attract a predominantly male following, or is it that it in some way repels women?
Genuinely puzzled.
Women, for the most part, aren't technical. Whether that's nature or nurture, I don't know. Give little girls Meccano sets, electric trains and chemistry sets, rather than dollies and prams, and see if it changes.
When I was running a technical cmpany, I employed bags of women as engineers and tech support.
At my alma mater, bags of women are now engineering undergrads and post grads where in my day it was one in one thousand. No, today women are no different - something else is going on.
They have, to them, something more important to spend their money on?
They don't visit gridwatch because they have, to them, better things to do?
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Convince people you are there for WOMEN. I tend to find that women are turned off by the use of the "C" word. Try to cut down on the leftyC...s etc.
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It does not appear on that website
Cool. Now just deal with the other stuff and your coffers will be full - or not.
IMO it?s the same reason there are very few women in here.
And anywhere on the net too.
Not so pronounced on facebook etc tho.
And what reason is that?
there are tons on the net
They are facebook addicts IME
There's a donate button?
I'll have to sort out a few quid - genuinely useful website that...
As of the day before yesterday, yes.
Perhaps they're more academically rigorous?! It's telling that you rarely use academic sources to back up your assertions. Your 'Limitations of 'Renewable' Energy' for example.
Where OOI did you do your undergrad degree(s)?
Although your Gridwatch site looks very good IMHO.
Maybe they're savvy enough to do a quick web search on someone before giving him or her money?
how would they connnect te two?
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They just don't find it useful. Probably because to most people it isn't useful.
I wonder how many actually visit more than once? You can't expect someone that doesn't visit frequently to donate.
Given the amount of insults TNP has given out I doubt if anyone here would donate.
Interesting how from your initial observation re. the website, you construc t a subject line 'Are Women just sexist?'
They can smell you out easy.
It's a pretty niche market! Just as most people are not interested in the workings of a car as long as they can get in and drive it, I suspect that much the same thing applies to the grid - as long as there is power available when we wish to use it.
Looking at it in great depth requires a nerd-like mentality - and there are almost certainly more male than female nerds.
If you can convince the world that we are in serious danger of running out of capacity, maybe more people will sit up and take notice.
In what way is it useful? To the average person?
What do you do that makes it useful rather than just interesting?
If you understand how your car works, you might just be able to fix it if it breaks.
Is that so with the grid?
So women who say 'men are sexist' are sexist themselves?
Interesting...
how sexist of you!
Well of course we are. But the facts don't convince people it seems. Just propaganda.
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