Terri Oda wrote:
> The males who visited the booth gravitated to the person who was free or
> talking about something that interested them, regardless of gender. There
> were, I think, 5 of us for much of the day, so I talked with around 1/5 of
> the guys who stopped at our booth. However, I talked with probably 80-90%
> of the women.
I've noticed the same thing, and it's the reason I intend to attend
trade shows (as staff) when companies I'm with have booths there.
I don't have a good theory, but my off-the-cuff bad theory goes:
women tend to be reassured, in heavily-male environments, by the
presence of other women.
Note that in environments which are heavily female-oriented, it
seems that women aren't so likely to gravitate towards female staff -
they'll go to whichever gender. But it seems (I think) that men go
towards males in that environment.
I *think* it's a human-thing, not a male- or female- one.
Jenn V.
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