anyone know the ratio of men - women that practice martial arts? and the ratio of instructors?

also has there been any real research on this or is it something of a guess?

I know in the class I take there are roughly 10% women.

Sure my school has to be somewhere around 50%.

Why don't we start a poll to see what they numbers are like.

Hey all...

At the schoo where im at.. in the adult classes.. there are maybe like 10 that i know of... and there are twice as many guys.. but hey... that's how this girl likes it... heheheheh :D

My school is around 50/50 for the adults. I donno about the kids.

We have 2 females. It's pretty sad. With the violence of todays
world, more should see that they can do their best to defend
themselves.

Exactly, I'm not sure. It's a little hard to tell when not everyone shows up for every single class. Let's see, we have a club mailing list on Yahoo. The member list has 29 people on it, but one is our teacher. That leaves 28 students. I'm assuming that all our (semi-)regular students are on the list. Only 1 is explictly listed as female, but not everyone has Yahoo profiles and/or has theirs filled in. She doesn't come anymore, but she's on the list so I'll count her. I know there are two other women who usually show up, so that would make 3 women total and 25 men for a male:female ratio of about 8:1.

As a sort of aside related to Kirk's comment, I believe that there is some sort of women's self defense course on campus here. I've heard something about one existing, but that's about all I know. If there is some course designed specifically for female self defense, chances are most of the women are going there rather than to a more traditional martial arts class.

I had 2 females; they wanted quick results for problems of weight etc,. Well they left and one is coming back next week. She found out that the training was doing what it should have for her along with her self defense. My, brown belt whom has a black belt in TKD has 10 adult women in his class. He also includes aerobic kick boxing in his classes. Sincerely, In Humility; Chiduce!

In the class that I teach there are 8 people who attend regularly. All are male. I have one female student who attends occasionally.

In the class that I am attending there are 3 women and 5 men.

About three months ago, we were 35% women/girls and 65% Men/boys.

Now in the pst few month, two girls have signed up !! Joy!! We are now 40/60. In favor of the men still, but we do have classes, that by chance, end up all women. THose can be fun!!!

men - women ratio in MA?

In our hall, it is approximately 30% women, but it is getting higher. When I first started, it was only about 5%-10% women, so more women are getting involved. I don't see a problem with that! ;) ;)

We have about equal females to males at our studio.. at the college it seems we have more females than males at the beginning of each semester. By the middle of the semester there are more males. I think women in college think they either 'should take self defense' or it will be an easy Phys Ed Grade. which the guys tend to think also.

I wish we could get some of the parents involved.. they come to watch their kids and I would love to see them out participating in the adult class.

Tess

*Moved to WMA*

Older thread thought would be interesting to revive :)

We run about 50/50 adults and kids. Males used to dominate about 60/40, but those days are over.

Karate class it is probably 70% men to 30% women. BJJ it is 99% men and 1% women.

On any given night, our adult class is usually 30-50% female.
The kids class always has more girls than boys, though.

On any given night, our adult class is usually 30-50% female.
The kids class always has more girls than boys, though.

I replied earlier but when you mentioned the kids classes I thought about the ones in my clubs. You are right, far more girls than boys. In karate it is probably 65/35 for the girls and in BJJ it is easily 70/30 for the girls. The girls also have less turnover than the boys, until teenagerhood hits.

We have a pretty good ratio at my particular school. In addition to myself, there are 3 other females in my class. Counting sister schools, from what I've seen, I would estimate it 85-90% male...

Hello, We have been pretty lucky to get even amount of men and women.

Yes it would be nice to see more women get some kind of self-defense training.

Too many men do not know how to behave and treat women.

What can we do to get more women to learn some kind of self-defense?


In the real world - learning self-defense should be simple and easy to learn! One day someone will make it simple to teach and learn...is it possible?

How many years does it take one to learn how to poke someone in the eyes? Two? one for each side? ...................................Aloha

At my college, we have TKD, until this semester there were 3 guys to about 10 or so of us girls...now there are more guys....some days it was just BigNick and a whole lotta girls

At my college, we have TKD, until this semester there were 3 guys to about 10 or so of us girls...now there are more guys....some days it was just BigNick and a whole lotta girls

It's a hard knock life...

It's a hard knock life...

Heh. I haven't taken a count but I would say that the majority of my aikido class is young women.

Only when I was in Tai Chi was it more women than men, and almost everyone in the class was a senior citizen.

When I joined TKD at our school it was all teenagers and one other mother. Now it is about 50/50 depending on who comes to class. Sometimes we out number the guys sometimes not. TW

As far as I can tell, Systema is less than 5% female. At last year's summer training camp, there were around 93 men and 5 women. But camp isn't necessarily the best measure. In our night classes we generally have 6-8 men and 1-2 women.
I don't know why more women aren't attracted to Systema, it's a very good art for women as it does not rely on strength. I guess the military background could be a turnoff.
Best,
Rachel

Both schools I attended had about 20 guys and 2 girls.

we have a ration of about 5-10 boys for every girl. It differs on what day you are taking the class on.

I am the mother of a young female martial artist. She has stayed in martial arts long past the boys that started with her, I believe largely due to the fact that she has a fantastic female instructor. Our system has quite a few female black belts, and I find that typically those girls that keep with it, are very successful in our system. Now that my daughter is assistant teaching (she is a jr black belt 14 yrs old training since 6.5 yrs old) the young girls coming into class for the first time are very drawn to her, and her to them. Its a pleasure to see her passing on her knowledge and learning so much from them as well. At our last while belt test, there were 6 females and 4 males. Pretty amazing stuff. My husband also trains - he is outranked by our daughter - and that makes for interesting tests in respect on both their parts.

Right now in the beg-int adults 2 women(myself and best friend) and probally 8 men.
In the Advanced adults 0 women- till we get there in about 2 months!

Wow. Several women blackbelts AND a women instructor? My stsyem has only one out of the many teachers. Lucky duck. I haven't even met a female blackbelt of any sort yet-only men. :(

My class is about 1/3 female (the one I teach, I mean), and I am female also.

My instructor's class is about 1/4 female.

when I joined my current martial arts class there were 3 other girls that started at the same time. within a couple weeks i was the only girl white belt, sensei's wife was there as well, but I was often the only girl, and there were about 8 guys. Kinda cool but at the same time rather daunting. I started asking friends of mine to go to call outs and just talk to others about the class. Right now it is still me and sensei's wife most of the time, but at the beginner cycle class we have about three that show up most of the time ^_^ so times are changing!!!

^_^

I'm hearing it depends on where you are located.