Research Paper

[Kieran-Lilith]

I'm unsure where to put these, and it'll be a succession of polls...

I'm doing a research paper for my Eng 102 class, and the topic I've decided on is women and the martial arts.

So, my first question to you is this: What is the male to female percentage (approx.) in your martial art school?

If you cast a vote in this poll, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE cast your vote in any other poll I post! It'll help me keep a more valid research group!

Also, you can feel free to post where you're from, what your school is or practices, etc. All thoughts and ideas are wonderful, and credit will be given where credit is due.

Thanks!

[Rateh]

The school I attend seems to have a larger percentage of males then females, but not enough that it feels like a male school. There are as many black belt females as males, and the old head of the school (now over two schools with a new head of the school for mine) is female. The head of all the schools in my state is also female. The head of the organization is male.

The school I attended in vegas had a male head instructor, and three female instructors. The student body was about 50/50 in males and females.

[tori]

At our school, the male percentage is much greater than the females.

[joesteph]

So, my first question to you is this: What is the male to female percentage (approx.) in your martial art school? . . .

Also, you can feel free to post where you're from, what your school is or practices, etc. All thoughts and ideas are wonderful, and credit will be given where credit is due.

I'm from Bayonne, NJ, just outside NYC. I study at a small dojang, but that's fine for my children and me for individual attention. The reason I clicked off the mostly male selection, say 70%, is that I've noticed that the younger students, the Little Tigers in particular, are about 50-50, but when going into the teens and adults, it's overwhelmingly male. What's funny about it is that the chief instructor is a woman, and her own teacher, who has her own school but visits us now-and-then, is also a woman. One of the teenage boys is a dan member, and he got his teenage sister and her friend to take Soo Bahk Do, but the sister dropped out early when a part-time job opened up, while her girlfriend stayed, working part-time, but earning a promotion (from white to orange belt) on the same test day I did.

I teach in an all-girls secondary school, and I've found that the students who refer to karate will have studied it while in elementary school. Some who say they do or did kickboxing actually refer to cardio-kickboxing.

[tallgeese]

In both facilities that I train at, the number of men is signifigantly greater than women.

In one, we have no female students at all.