Hey YouTube! Where Are All My Ladies???

I know I am not a lady but I couldn't find what you do anywhere. I only found your channel when Dave Jones did a video on it. I find that the adverts are not worth taken seriously and I pay for Youtube Premium so I can do without them.

MrMobodies

What ads do people see on your channel? In the past weeks Youtube has been showing me two ads over and over again on your videos (not just on this one). This one <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=257ZVWFlvtU" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=257ZVWFlvtU</a> is a state sponsored ad looking for girls that are willing to become electronics teachers. Seems not even youtube's algorithms are taking their own statistics serious. The other one is an incredibly good but non-obvious match for the channel and a real pleasure to watch: <a href="https://twitter.com/KlassikStiftung/status/1114120158619029506" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/KlassikStiftung/status/1114120158619029506</a>

I have been pointing friends to you. but unfortunately I have also been educating them about internet tracking too so they are starting to become more wary of leaving profiles online. They are quite shocked how much info I garnered from their FB and Instagram timelines not to mention how careless they were with their Amazon reviews. It's not an excuse just saying I am trying to spread the word but prefer them to come to Patreon than youtube.

veritanuda

Would be interesting to see some gender breakdowns from other e-tech YouTubers - EEVblog? Bigclivedotcom? or channels like AvE, This Old Tony...?

Not given up - just put in the back due to the eviction/move. I'll get back to the long arc projects this summer.

Fran Blanche

Hi Fran. I came to your channel when you were investigating on those apollo integrated circuits and the dsky (you did not give up on that one, did you?). I think it was through the recommendation of Dave Jones, not exactly sure, rather than YT‘s algorithms.

Hey there, I'm a FranFan. I'm a 56 year old semi retired electronics Engineer. I spend most of my time nowadays aimlessly traveling the country in my travel trailer. I recently made a trip to my daughter's house in California. She's an electronics Technician at a large company that manufactures military drones. While at her house I spent a while binge watching your youtube vids. She has no interest in vintage electronics or your frants as I do. The only videos she wanted to sit down and watch with me were your pencil and pen videos. She especially enjoyed the fountain pen video. I think its our age Fran. we grew up in an era that few women were in the field. I hate to say it, but I feel like a dinosour sometimes. She's never actually attempted to assemble a Heathkit, as you and I have. She wasn't even around back when record players and vacuum tubes were all the rage. Dont change anything Fran, you're a blessing to us old male dinosours, your vids keep us off the streets.

Thank you for pointing this out to us males. I have been a Radio Ham since the early 1960's, and traditionally Ham Radio has been a male domain; but that is changing. More and more ladies are taking up the hobby, and I know they would love your channel if they only knew it was there. Perhaps you can make an "Fannouncement" to You Tube, beat them over the head with it and hit them where it hurts. Tell them they are missing out on a lot of advertising revenue by not including the ladies of this world. Many men are as thick as two short planks when it comes to accepting that women are interested in tech stuff; perhaps we are scared that you are better at it, which in many cases is true. Wake up You Tube, you are missing a BIG revenue stream!

Is there an other or decline to state in the gender break down? I don't tell Google my gender (it says "cilliated amoeboid" right now), but it's not like they can't easily figure it out.

Ellen

In engineering school, I believe the breakdown was 19% to 81%. As you say, 0.6% to 99.4% isn't possible Justified rant.

Geeze, 0.6%, I'm running up to 5% Wouldn't be the first time Youtube has screwed up gender demographic data though.

EEVblog

I was happy to see the stats on my channel are showing an increase in female viewership from 5% to 6% this year. For years it hovered around 1%. I know 6% is nothing to have a street parade about, but it’s slowly heading in the right direction.

Techmoan

So how many of your subscribers and patrons are women? Assuming those statistics are well above 0.6%, then you’d think the number of female viewers would reflect that, which makes me wonder if YouTube’s viewing statistics are simply broken.

Philip Stephens

Then "unknown" should be part of the stats if that were the case.

lohphat

Just posted the vid to my LinkedIn page -- I know a lot of women in tech and they'll help spread the word. Between this and the broken copyright flagging and appeal system is creating a need for an alternative platform by the day.

lohphat

"Womengineering" is a term I like. Because "mengineering" is too close to "mansplaining". With very few exceptions, all the engineering and science links I share are by women. Their work is excellent, but they too easily get lost in the overwhelmingly male numbers in these areas. I do what I can to make things tilt a little bit the other way. And my list is truly excellent! But about the underlying cause: We have centuries of societal history and pressures to circumvent. The real need is not to fight those pressures directly in society (always a good fight, though slow), but to prevent the next generation from being indoctrinated by them. Let the old dinosaurs die naturally: Let the young ones be free. So, in a year or two, I plan to move from the lab to the high school STEM classroom. To try to make engineers rather than be one. I really should teach middle school, but the thought of running a classroom filled with hormonal kids undergoing puberty scares me silly. Even leading engineers is easier than that!

BobC

While I agree there’s an algorithm problem here, I suspect there’s also a measurement problem here: how do they even know the gender of viewers? Presumably only logged in viewers (definitely not all viewers), who disclosed their gender (not all?), correctly (not all, for other reasons), etc. But yes, I’d still expect to see 20% or more of “not men” in viewing statistics based on all the other tech things I see in the world. Ewen

Ewen McNeill

A (very insightful) person that I follow suggested that YT may be categorizing viewers as male _because_ they watch technical videos. I'm afraid that I don't have proof either way, but it is reasonable to question the methods and sources on figures like those.

I know - right??

Fran Blanche

If they are into building, you could use neopixels and an arduino to make a light-up horn for a unicorn model?

Aaron the Tinkerer

YouTube's algorithms are pretty terrible. Virtually every woman in my social circle is into STEM. It's ludicrous for anyone to think "only men" are into it.

Aaron the Tinkerer

I’m trying to get my nieces interested. I need to find a way of adding 100% more unicorn to the subject though, as they’re still magnetically attracted to horses with horns, and the colour pink.

Well according to the stats on some of my own videos where I've been the only person to view them, I'm male, so I'll trust youtube stats as far as I can physically throw them ;)

Chloe Cresswell