Topic: Gender in Gambling [differences between Women and Men in Gambling] - page 30. (Read 5929 times)

Isnt it too one-sided? Men bet more since they're providers. Protected by men, women are more risk-averse. Isn't this too simplistic? Traditional positions are being renegotiated or challenged in the 21st century.

Today's women are independent, working, and sharing family duties. Isnt it better to include this? Could their gambling be influenced by social acceptance, education, or risk tolerance?

Regional and cultural factors also matter. But responsibilities change. As you said, female online gamblers are rising. However, increased access may explain it. Consider that your 80:20 % may change depending on a region's location and culture.

I also think it makes a no difference. There are only small differences in the perception of the game.Still, men more often than women place huge bets, after which you can lose everything or win a lot. Women prefer not to bet so much, the process itself and getting pleasure are important for them. Probably because their main task is not to win, but to have a good time, to get away from life's problems.

The main reason for attracting a female audience to the gambling industry is marketing. If they create advertisements aimed at attracting them to the game, then there will be much more women in gambling. Moreover, marketing knows how to do, but doesn't do it

Those are prejudices against women, and, truth to be told, modern educated women don't deserve such an attitude. In fact, some statistics show a completely different picture. This is how it is in the United States:

"Only 2.9 percent of women were found to be problem gamblers, compared to 4.2 percent of men. "
Source: https://fherehab.com/learning/gambling-addiction-men-women/

Probably in other countries it's the other way round, and the data compensate each other, and overall, I think, there's no difference between men and women in regards to gambling.

Yes, everyone has their own views about gambling, so people have to separate talk about religion and gambling in this forum because it won't be compatible, even though we know that in certain religions there are those that prohibit it and some that don't, those of us who don't understand religion should also not blame and correct what we don't know about the verses of the holy book and also those who adhere to religion shouldn't say that gambling is a sin and it's prohibited in this forum because here we have to prioritize human rights.

All must make their own choices in gambling and the sins of each personal matter to bear. Apart from that, speaking of gender, I think we all agree that men and women have the same rights in gambling because they both seek pleasure and money in gambling.

The ratio of men vs women gamblers is high and aside from the various reasons you mentioned, there is any factor that you failed to mentioned as being responsible for the higher rate of men involvement in gambling vs women and that reason is the risk and responsibility of providing for the family which put man at the higher risk of trying to make enough to care for the family, because unlike the women who's mahor responsibility is on the husband, it then means that the male forks take more risk comoared to the women since gambling is a high risk game, the female forks will be more skeptical about it and i  most cases tend to look away from gambling and focusing more on some othe realistic real life activities.

So this difference have made a limitation to women's involvement in gambling and this differs from country to country and region to region and all the same with the coming of online gambling,  the number of female gambling has increased and more also it is a fact that there can now gamble in privacy which is more inclusive in the region where gambling may be prohibited or banned.

In my country today, gambling in some regions is prohibited but the Sharia/Islamic laws that prohibit gambling also have several other laws that set limits as to women's involvement in public affairs,  and these limits have affected both women and men in many ways which have pause a limitation to the general public involvement I gambling.

But if you as me to make a ratio as to the rate of women vs men give men 80% and women 20% from the total of 100% so this is a pointer to what I mean when I said that the male. rate triple women's involvement in gambling.

If you happen to find yourself in a religion that say gambling is a sin and could end up being ostracized then it's in your best interest to either be obedient and keep to the laws of your religion or you could change to another religion where you would not be criticised, left for me inthink why most religions comsider it a sin is because they feel it promotes greed and other illegal activities, however it would be very bias when the say it's a sin but only discriminate or punish women only because that would be promoting gender inequality.
 Anyways the ratio of men that ate gamblers would always be greater than women due to factors like religion, gender inequality, fear of discrimination an so forth, also men in our society you'll find men more interested in things related with gambling, like sports, video games, and other events and since most don't have an idea about it, they see no reasons to pick interest in it as well, hopefully in future more women could likely begin to pick interest in it because of the introduction of women to various sporting activities.

I still can't find the verse in our Holy Scripture that directly stated that gambling is a sin, so I believe it is just a human interpretation which we all know is prone to error and loopholes.  Anyway, I still believe that in terms of entertainment like gambling, there should be no discrimination or what so ever.  Men and Women are both human, both a citizen of a country and have the same right human right.  They should be treated equal.

Human nature regardless of sex will appear in both genders except for their function in reproduction obviously. 

Brother, preach! Im getting your religious point. Since all religions encourage equality, shouldnt all sins be sins for all? Avoid gender preconceptions. Generalising that women gamble less because they're less greedy ignores individual distinctions. Socioeconomic position and psychological features affect gambling behaviour, according to academic research. Women not squandering money (ouch!) Wasteful expenditure should not be tolerated regardless of gender. If you look closely, arent we all envious of people who can spend without thinking?

Interesting fact that women gamble will be ostracized because they think women are inappropriate to play in the gambling environment, when they see women gambling they will be marked as women who should be avoided by men because gambling behavior for women will be difficult to build a household for good economic management, even though gambling addiction is not different from gender but we trust the management of family funds to the wife and I think we prefer women who have other jobs and she has never been involved in any gambling.

I think the issue of women in gambling being considered as not being responsible and ostracized by the general public is something that is common in most countries of the world, Not just in Indonesia, or the fact that its Muslim country.
Nigeria is mixed with Muslim and Christianity, but the country is majorly a Christian filled country, and here, women who are discovered to be into gambling are considered highly irresponsible as well, in-fact, such a woman will hardly find a man to marry her except the man does  not know that she gambles...
And some times, I am left asking myself, if men are doing it and no body see it as a crime, why does it become crime when its a woman doing it?, i mean gambling..

If we do speak about some religion rules then not all would really be prohibiting on doing gambling but it would really be having that significant warning about on dealing with it but if its really that prohibited then of

course it would really be no exemption when it comes whether you would really be a girl or boy because this has nothing to do with gender in the first place. Anyone could really be blamed out or would be committing out such mistake if ever they would really be tending on engaging on something which isnt really not allowed and lets just respect on what they had but in overall and not talking about religions or whatsoever then
doing gambling is never been bad, its for entertainment and you are the ones will really be making up decisions on how you should gonna spend up your money.

Women is equal to men and it is really just not that right on trying out to underestimate or looking down about women just like on what the community is really seeing into.This isnt those old
times or years or generation anymore about having that kind of down impression towards women.

A religion that considers gambling a sin does it for both men and women, take Islam as an example. In Islam, a man or a woman who gambles is a sinner, and there is nothing one needs to do in that case, it is just them who needs to stop doing it and repent their actions and ask for forgiveness from their creator. And, I believe any religion that has the same rule would have it for both men and women and not specifically for women.

If we talk about the general world where people don't really care about a religion or where their religion allows gambling for both men and women, women tend to gamble but not as much as men because it's not in their nature to waste money on such things, they don't get too greedy too easily.

I come from the country of Indonesia, here is the largest Muslim country in the world (in our country gambling is prohibited but here the betting market is very big), when a female gambler is detected, the general public will judge the woman as someone who is not responsible for her family and she will definitely be ostracized, you cannot equate social views on women in every country, patriarchy is still very strong and that is something that cannot be eliminated (that women should not gamble).

Wow, that was something I didn't expect because so many women gamble in your area. It sure would be interesting to gamble between men and women. And when a lot of women win while the men lose, it's sure to annoy the men because they lose to the women

But gambling is legal in your area, so many women and men can gamble freely. But other people from other countries may not get freedom like in your country.

It still happens in some countries where if women gamble, it will give a bad image to the woman. They would rather not gamble in public, and with the presence of online casinos, they can gamble freely because they can hide it from others. But if the woman is married, she should not gamble anymore, and if she wants to gamble, her husband must know so that there will be no fights between them.

A sad truth that we'll never be able to remove but we can start with ourselves and be the kindest person that we can ever be. Since it's gambling, there's no bias on it and everyone is able to do that. While those people that can't change themselves, I believe that someday they'll change for the better.

That's a practice that we've grown up with. If we're treating people equally, there are others that don't have the same attitude and treatment as us. That's hard to change and that's why even if you'll be the kindest person in the casino and treats everyone fairly. You don't expect the same thing comes back to you.

And yet, it's their opinions and belief that they wanted to practice, even there are many places as well who already encourage the kind of fairness but still in a culture insight coming from people who continue to practice the old style of living, this discrimination will remain and will stay as long as they are still alive.

Just the same, with those open-minded there's nothing wrong to have an equal treatment and allow women to practice their rights
to enjoy and be entertained or to whatever extent that they choose to gamble.

I don't know where you are from but in some parts of the world, women who gamble are seen as sinners and men, there, can' accept that a woman has the right to gamble and there is nothing wrong about it. I'm not talking about developing countries because in some developed countries men also think the same way. They can't accept the fact that a woman can afford to gamble and assume her responsibility when she loses.

If that seems very unfair to me, women are people too, they have rights, I don't understand why some countries are like this, more than all Arab countries because of their same culture they are the ones that are like this, I thank God that I was not born there, otherwise I would have run from those countries where they have women as servants and only to be locked up in a house while the man has more than 5 women and all of them have the right to do things as they want l women don't, then women play like men and they should always have the right to play in a casino , it is what should always be done , when a woman wants she can Always.

What religion?
What societies?

I cant really see things despite those are just personal impressions whenever we do see women who do wander around on this places which is actually this do pertains on local gambling physical places but not that something  you could really be able to see on online place considering that everyone is really that not known when it comes to gender. Honestly, gambling is for everyone it is really just that
the community does always have that kind of impression that girls are just good on kitchen and should really be at home and not really engaging into something on which men does.
This had been the common thing that we do know or could really be able to have on this society which is really that wrong.

Women could do on what men can do and there's no limitation to that, we do have the same intellect but its really that unusual for women to engage on gambling
knowing that they do really hate on losing money in the first place.

Many societies and regions of the world won't accept the women and female class of people taking part in gambling. They won't expect women to be a gambler and they think this gambling and betting is only for men. There we see that globally men are more involved in gambling as compared to women.

Online gambling has opened more doors for women to enter in the gambling world without getting noticed, but I still think the numbers for women in gambling are far less as compared to the numbers for men's in gambling.