Barfunkel wrote:It's kinda weird that there are so few female techno producers. Techno is so faceless, nobody cares what the producer looks like, only the quality of the output matters. Especially these days when all you need is a laptop to produce, in theory there should be tons of female producers cos it's so easy to start doing it on your own. I've never personally met a girl who's interested in the production side of music, even other music than techno. Very few girls are into record collecting too, which is equally weird as it's not like a record shop owner would refuse to sell a record to girl, an online store even less so.
I think you've answered your own question there
Females are generally less inclined to get into geeky hobbies like DJing and producing. I don't think there's armies of female DJs out there struggling to get gigs because it's a male dominated profession, I think there's simply fewer of them who're interested. The ratio of your well known Cassies, Steffis, Dashas, etc to big male DJs seems about right for the hobby/profession.
My day job is in engineering, which is one of these occupations where a big fuss is made about the high male-to-female stats, but how many females do you know who actually take an interest in engineering? I know a few women in the industry and their career so far (bear in mind I'm talking those who've started recently, things may well have been different "back in the day") hasn't been some epic struggle against the odds to be recognised despite their gender, nor did they get an easy ride in the name of equality. Apart from a bit of potentially annoying but harmless office banter their sex hasn't changed anything.
I'm veering off the original topic a little bit but the original topic was a bit of a dead end anyway. Although generally I think in this day there's a bit too much political correctness in as far as saying something like what I just said, about a higher proportion of men being interested in a hobby/profession such as electronic music, might be considered sexist because I've dared to suggest that many most men and most women aren't exactly the same apart from having some different body parts...