I would love to see some real numbers around women and coworking. I'm currently 50% women but usually a little higher than that.
Deskmag or Emergent - Are you doing another survey soon? Could we get some more specific numbers around demographics for the next one? -----Original Message----- From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of sk...@emergentresearch.com Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 8:54 PM To: Coworking Subject: [Coworking] Re: What percentage of your membership is made up by women? Back when the global coworking survey was done, women comprised about 1/3rd of the US respondents. Based on our other work, this was probably a bit higher than the actual female rate, which at the time we estimated at about 25%. This data is about 1 year old. In our interviews with women we often hear that the habits of male coworkers don't always lead to environments that are attractive to women. In particular, the personal grooming and behavioral habits of young male techies are often highlighted (note to young male techies - take more showers:)). Despite this, It seems from our point of view that women's coworking share is increasing. Lots of studies show women are more naturally collaborative than men (sorry guys). This could indicate in the long run women coworkers will out number men. Having said that, self-employment skews male. So does employment in the tech industry. Given that many coworkers are in the tech industry and self-employed, having more male than female coworkers - at least today - is not a surprise. Steve On Jul 1, 12:44 pm, Angel Kwiatkowski <fccowork...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just curious as I've seen it vary widely and I plan to put some mental > energy towards figuring out why. Cohere is 45% women right now. How > about you? > > Angel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
