On the question of gender (use any definition of gender here) differences in origami, we at Ohio Paper Folders have a somewhat unique experience in this, as we have taught literally tens of thousands of random people in hospitals, libraries, and especially at the Ohio Asian Festival, Columbus Arts festival and several similar events.
We pay to have a tent there and we teach the public beginner models at no charge. We have seen essentially NO bias of gender, age, race, education level, income class, native born vs immigrant...Obviously downtown Columbus arts festival trends towards higher income people, but pretty broad racially. Asian festival trends towards higher non-white percentage (both because of the type of festival and the fact that the venue borders a neighborhood that is very high percentage African American). But...both no real gender bias. And at the CenterFold origami convention based solely on the names of attendees this year was 52% "female". 2019 was 54%. Some of those are non-binary, trans etc. Just going by eyeballing the list of names, so hardly scientific...but should be close enough for jazz. John Scully
