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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4746467, member: 111037&quot;][USER=101013]@Limes[/USER] has a good point. Not everything is down to inequality, some areas tend to be more women-oriented, some others are more men-oriented. The important thing is that in all such cases, the minority members should not be discouraged to participate in the group activities, and have equal opportunities to get involved into running such groups if they wish to do so. I am a man, but to quote an example mentioned earlier, I quite like Victorian porcelain dolls. If I were ever to start collecting them and join a club, I might be a minority in the room, but as long as everyone treated me equally, there wouldn&#039;t be a problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] perhaps the main question about the article in question is the phrase &#039;<b>feels excluded</b>&#039;. What is your personal opinion/experience on this? Do you think there is any tendency on either a conscious or subconscious level to keep numismatics a boys&#039; club? Going back to the porcelain doll example, I would probably feel initially intimidated if I was to be the only man in a such a group meeting, but I wouldn&#039;t feel &#039;excluded&#039; unless I could sense that I was actually being shunned.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I would be very happy to see more women getting interested in numismatics. And I don&#039;t think it would be strange either. It is not a &#039;macho&#039; field really... There is a large number of eminent female archaeologists and historians, and numismatics (as far as ancients is concerned) is a related field.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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