Janice - if you think that half the entrants should have been female, I'd like to play poker with you some day.
Just look at our active membership. This is a rough indicator, but I checked the poems on each of our Boards going back 20 days (I didn't count the notices posted by Maryann about this contest.) The Deep End is 27/4 male/female. Metrical is 22/5. Only FV is remotely close, at 28/19. (I skipped one name I didn't know and couldn't categorize.) The total is 77/28 male/female. It's probably skewed male because I counted multiple posts, and guys seem to post every week more aggressively than women (there's a doctoral thesis in there), but factor in also the fact that the poems tend to be longer in FV, where most of the female members posted, and we have more new members - who are less likely to enter a contest - and I bet that contest partiicipation was between 2/1 and 3/1 male. Maybe Maryann could provide actual numbers.
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