Topic: The shocking rate of women interested in gambling. - page 8. (Read 2307 times)

I don’t think it’s a gender based issue. All types of gambling is far more accessible now than it used to be. The rise of the internet obviously goes hand in hand with an increase in access to gambling because of online casinos and sportsbooks, dice etc.

Before somebody would have to go to a physical bookie or casino but now you can do it from the comfort of your own home. All reputable bookies, casinos and online gambling platforms advocate responsible gambling. You can also set limits so really it is the responsibility of us, the punters to budget well and control our gambling habits.

I agree with your statement.

Gambling is an act whereby anyone can participate. Class, sex, or race are irrelevant factors that determine the amount of people that are going to try and participate in the said games. I guess the biggest factor on why most people have participated more compared to the past are the advertisements being scattered around all social media platforms and the opportunity that the pandemic brough in shifting activities mostly online.


Parents have the vital role of creating an environment that avoids all sorts of influences. They have the responsibility and degree of control to at least minimize exposure of their children to any vices especially during the crucial years of their peak curiosity. If children are curious especially if left unsupervised, then they have the tendency to visit and attempt activities that are meant for adults, and this includes gambling as well.

It is no longer a necessity but it has become an obligation for parents to educate and direct their children in the right direction such as telling and directing about what is good to do and what should not and should be avoided in any case and not just about gambling.

The worry is that yes, now gambling is increasingly widespread and reaches all ages, especially children, in my opinion, one of the things that makes all this happen is because now is the digital era where we can find everything just by making the internet, there are many positive and negative things or information that we can get there and maybe gambling is included in something negative, all of this is out of control because it is now the era and it is very difficult for us individually to prohibit all negative things from being displayed or displayed on the internet such as gambling promotions, if you do not want your child to experience the adverse effects of gambling then obviously the solution is that you must take good care of all their activities, meaning by putting a lot of restrictions so that they do not reach gambling, and actually all of these restrictions must be done and applied by everyone and not just children because the problem of impact is likely to be the same.

For children this is not so sufficient, because often you need to deposit money in some way, and this can be done for a teenager but not for a child.

For women, gambling has always been just as accessible as for men, but I can judge by my social circle, and I see that for women it’s no more than buying a lottery, that’s where all the excitement ends for them, so I can conclude that for women, gambling is not as important as for men, women will spend money on beauty salons, it is a more enjoyable activity for them.

I kind of agree with you on this, Females gamble very much nowadays and the funny thing is that you would not see them in physical casinos which makes it look as though they don't have much interest in it, most of them stay undercover of online casinos. I remember a school mate of mine in my university days. She doesn't go a single day without placing various football bets and she was very good in analyzing games that you would think she is male. She wins regularly too and most times buys me beer with her wins.

I have encountered a lot of female gamblers as friends both in the past and present, but one thing I don't understand is that they don't get this so addicted that they throw in all funds into it unlike me when I was an addict, you'll hear them saying that they don't have money to place bets today, or that its only their feeding funds that they have left and so on. I think it's their natural management instincts that has always played out in their involvements in gambling as they are always very cautious of going broke.

Yes, educate children is a must for parents so they will stay away from gambling, especially if their country prohibit gambling. With good educations and always takes care their children, parents will make sure that they are doing their best for their children.

Besides children, gambling now reach women and attract them to visit a gambling site. As we know that online gambling is easily to access, women, children, men are playing gambling, even if their country doesn't allow gambling. That can increase the number of addicted people to gambling if no education from the government and family. The government can show ads how dangerous gambling for someone with the affect that the other people around a gambler can get.

I believe the same, as long as one is an adult that is earning their own money they can choose to gamble if they want, anything else is secondary, and while I will admit that during the instances in which I gambled at a regular casino, most of their clients were men, at the same time the number of women there were high as well, and no one was impressed or alarmed by all the women that spent their time gambling at the casino and enjoying themselves.

We must admit that today's children are smarter than their parents, especially when it comes to technology. Cell phones are their daily bread, and they know how to use all the features on their smartphones. So to just eliminate the traces on their cell phones to not get caught by their parents, then it's something easy. But is it when children are smarter than parents, parents don't supervise them? I think not, it depends on how assertive parents are to educate their children.
Even if they can't find anything suspicious on the cell phone, then they can find it from their children's habits. For example, from their snacking habits, I think from there we should know how much money they will use for snacks. And when they don't spend the money they are given, but they don't have any savings then it is suspicious. Because from some experiences I have seen a child is willing not to snack for the sake of saving money and they will use the savings to buy features in a game. So maybe that will also happen if they are familiar with gambling.

With so much data that are on the internet, it's very accessible to get into online casinos. And I'd just stop the argument that what men can do, can't be done by women.

We're on a different era where there's no more gender bias and there's now equality to what we do depending on the setup of each man and woman.

That's why if we're into gambling, no doubt that there are women that are also into it. It's not just highlighted because the gambling industry is dominated by men, same as the others. But I wouldn't think of any differences because this is a different time that almost no restriction to what a free country allows to let men and women do whether in gambling, or etc.

I don't understand how it became shocking and surprising to see the growing number of women who were interested in gambling. Gambling is for everyone regardless of gender. In the first place, women are not prohibited to be involved in gambling. It's just that women are not used to being involved in gambling but generation changes as we progress.

Gambling can be considered as a form of entertainment whether online gambling or physical gambling. When we say entertainment, it also includes social community and everyone is welcome to join. Let's normalize already that in today's gambling, more women will be involved, not to compete with the number of men but that's how social interaction works.

I don't know if we should be happy our women are getting involved into gambling, is it a welcome development but we have no right to judge because everyone is looking for every means to earn money and participating in gambling is not exempted.

It is better to educate them on the dangers of gambling instead of taking hard steps to placing restrictions as it may cause the children to really want to attempt it by doing it secretly.

Most women that I know are not hardcore gamblers, they are into influencing by using social media, few of them do streaming too, and they don't need to gamble their money, they get free money from their fans and they use such money to gamble, it's way better to be a gambling influencer than a gambler itself, because one is saver than the other.

I've seen females in a betting location before, but they are football fans who just want to take a shot, and now that there is online gambling, there is no way to have an idea of the numbers of female gamblers in a country or in tnr world.

It's not every women that are into gambling, most of them want the best for themselves and only the desperate ones go for gambling, in my own country, a woman who is known to be a gambler will have to face some criticism, there will be some lack of respect and so on.

Based on my own observation here in my place women are into card games most of the time and I can also see some of them in lottery booths. But what is alarming here is that women are involved in illegal card games in my neighborhood and I can say that most of them were irresponsible gamblers because they brought their kids wherever they are playing. And one more thing they sometimes don't realize that they already skipped their meals together with kids that is one reason I stay away from that special place we hang out with my neighborhoods because sometimes conscience haunted me while watching those kids unattended and hungry. Those kids are undisciplined as well so yeah not my kind of place to be honest.

How do you know it's harming or hindering people's happiness? we never know how women or men enjoy their gambling. There are a lot of advertisements for online casinos nowadays, but if they feel that gambling gives them pleasure in addition to the winnings they are looking for, I don't think that will be a problem.
Problems will only arise when those who gamble experience stressful financial problems. no matter whether women or men, when they gamble well and responsibly. I think they will still enjoy gambling and not feel disadvantaged.

Women are more afraid of taking risks than men and that is why women are less likely to gamble.  But now as the online casinos are very attractive and their advertisements are publicized on social media, it is attracting a lot of attention of women and hence the number of women gambling is also increasing day by day. But yes it is much less than male. People are using gambling as a trend now.  But no one realizes how much it harms people along with their happiness

Honestly, in my opinion, whoever is a woman or a man still has the same possibility of impact if both are involved in gambling, losing money is something they are sure to experience but maybe in different amounts, and what I mean is in the possibility of addiction, if basically these two people between men and women have a bad approach or treat gambling in a way that is not recommended then still the possibility of addiction is greater or very likely to happen to them.

One of the reasons that makes me equalize the possibility between the two of them to enter the addiction phase is because human beings are creatures of perception while gambling is an activity that can make someone forget some of the boundaries they have made because of the things that look tempting which of course are very difficult for them to ignore so it cannot be denied that there will always be times for them to forget boundaries or management due to falling into things that look tempting, so basically I cannot make any difference in gender. For the problem of worry I think women or men both do not like the name of losing because it can interfere with their finances, but this is gambling where whoever you are, male or female will still have the same bad possibilities, and the key is if you are able to treat gambling properly and as many people suggest then you will be able to avoid bad possibilities such as addiction.

I actually have a different view from you, in my opinion not all women will gamble just to protect their partner, sometimes the woman already has a hobby and is even addicted to gambling before she knows her partner, to be honest, this is the result of women emancipation which continues to be promoted by the western world so that men and women have the same right to gamble, and sometimes in this day and age it is not taboo to see women gambling, smoking and even drinking alcohol in public.

Honestly, if we compare it to the era under the 90s of course we will not find this freedom happening in public, maybe this is something that has been commonplace in the west for a long time, but in the eastern region where i live, there will be big consequences if there are women who were caught gambling, drinking alcohol and even smoking at that time, as far as i remember, in the past women were more focused on their activities at home or in their field of work during the day rather  going out at night, which at that time would get negative sentiment from society, but now i think the world is no different west and east because freedom has become a right that no longer maintains good norms.

There is a qualitative change taking place in society, which changes all the roles that the individual plays within his societal environment. Women are the biggest beneficiaries because they will at least give up traditional roles.

It is an approach that will remain a subject of moral controversy indefinitely because the phenomenon is provocative and it is not easy to come up with an objective assessment without falling into gender classifications, even though the comparison is between two different genders. I believe that the issue can only be studied from the point of view of analytical psychology, which classifies activities according to gender. For example, we find that men lead in the gambling industry, while women excel at excessive consumption of clothing and cosmetics.

Do not be surprised, the world is becoming increasingly insane and there is nothing we can do about it unless individuals and governments are up to their natural responsibilities and given tasks, even as leaders and parents among others.  First, let's leave the issue of licencing and KYC casino or not out of this because no-KYC casinos and KYC casinos can be effectively bypassed by any kids. So long as they have the money, influence or connection, they can do whatever they want and they will get whatever they want to get, including a verified account. You can see how people are advertising various verified accounts these days, how are you sure that the needed casinos can't be verified and sold to underage people? This is why I said the world is insane, we all have our role to play here to keep it better, and not casinos alone. The casinos would not know in the example I cited, they would only be seeing the adult person playing on their platform but the actual person behind the screen is a young personality. What do you have them do in this situation?

Besides, parents are not doing well at all, many parents still need to be under their parents...lol or counsellors judging by their ways of life, you can now imagine such parents actually parenting their children, what do you expect? Some parents will hand over adult things to their children and give them 100% access to the internet, is that not too off and some of the causes? You can't expect less, my friend. Besides, peer groups, older friends and social media are causing a lot as well. Once the kids get to know it already, they will find every means to bypass every legal restriction until they have their aims achieved. I wonder how the future of such children would be in the next 5 years after.

Remember that not all women who gamble are a real gambler.

Some of them bet because they're fan of the player, it's no surprising anymore because we can find in our society that each woman has it's own dream man and they will do anything in order to protect this guy including spend money for unnecessary thing.

While some of them going out to offline casino because casino is a place of rich people, so they're trying to find sugar daddy in there.