Are there any girls who play chess?..

I'm glad we're spending our time so wisely

I don't think that is the entire answer. At my job women outnumber men three to one, and the women come from many different countries and are all varying ages. I went around and asked "Do you play chess?" Four of the five scientists are women and none play chess. There are two mathematicians both are women who do not play chess. A strong majority of technicians at work are women and not one plays chess. A quick glance at new members who join everyday here on chess.com are male (minus the women who give the impression of being male to avoid online harassment). 
Pattern recognition difficulties can't be the only issue if women in general have never touch the chess board. Cultural perhaps? Probably not since my job has enough different culture to make us a miniature version of the UN. Traditional perhaps? This I lean towards as chess has been seen as a "manly" game passed from father to son (as my father did to me but not my sisters). 
So, the question I have is this: how can we get more women into the game of chess and create new traditions?

No, there arent, they are raising children while us are wasting our time here

We in the C4 club generally only play against girl groups, Anitas Biker Angels , Miss Chocolatties Dream etc We find the banter great fun and them girls are good sports.

Apparently we are also raising children here on this site but without much success ...

Oi mate I am not raising any children here

It is not sexist or discriminatory to note that there are fewer women who are good at chess than men, since there is no moral injunction requiring us to presume that of all the infinitely many groups of people we could logically construct, we must assert that they are all equally good at everything if we don't want to be racist or sexist.  It is simply not rational to insist that all left-handed Jewish males in Camden, New Jersey must be just as good at playing Scrabble as all Amish women with a limp in Chicago, and morality can't require that we believe in irrationalities. What morality requires is that we treat all people equally and give everyone a fair chance to demonstrate their abilities.  Morality requires equal concern and respect for all individuals, not the dogmatic assumption that the net performance of all groups in all things be identical. 

Unfortunately, there has been general confusion over that point in recent years because the presence or absence of discriminatory treatment has been indirectly measured by checking to see whether the representation of all groups in any field of endeavor corresponds to the group's proportion in the population.  But this is an indirect measure, and measures to ensure equal matching between population proportions and group representations are about as rational letting the mercury out of the thermometer to cool off a room.

Ahhhh...this forum is starting to morph like the many past forums discussing " who's the better player? Men or women? While the majority of commenters are male, obviously, they state their brains are far superior than their counterparts while the defensive argument on women is the sheer difference in numbers of players. Perhaps, 25,000 to 1. (I don't even think that out of 22 million plus members here at chess.com, no more than 2% are women.) there are no conclusive evidence on the first argument while the later could be theoretically be correct. But who am I to argue? The responses would just be overwhelmingly male dominated opinion. A long shot for a woman to prove a point.....nevertheless, I've stated mine...

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isabela14 wrote:

Ahhhh...this forum is starting to morph like the many past forums discussing " who's the better player? Men or women? While the majority of commenters are male, obviously, they state their brains are far superior than their counterparts while the defensive argument on women is the sheer difference in numbers of players. Perhaps, 25,000 to 1. (I don't even think that out of 22 million plus members here at chess.com, no more than 2% are women.) there are no conclusive evidence on the first argument while the later could be theoretically be correct. But who am I to argue? The responses would just be overwhelmingly male dominated opinion. A long shot for a woman to prove a point.....nevertheless, I've stated mine...

While the majority of commenters are male, that doesn't mean we all think we're superior, ( although there's always a few idiots who dig out the same old crap in these discussions ) sure, there's less women playing chess, about 1/10 ( I think ) I presume most women simply choose to do some other activity, women dominate crafts for eg. The responses may be male dominated but that doesn't make them anti women, it's just that the ones that are seem to stand out but they're probably best ignored.

I found a girl who plays chess!

Yes mate he did

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@krudsparov, when I said "majority" it means not all. I highly doubt that 10% of all chess players either worldwide or here at chess.com are female. 

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Nope. No girls play chess. It's a Myth (or a Mythes). Move along. Nothing to see here. 

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