Breakdown of female libertarians according to Facebook

I am not entirely sure how I got to writing this post - one minute I misplaced my wallet (which has my keys), a few days later it is still missing and I have to go to class, of course my apartment is locked, I go back there time and again to see if my roommate is home, at one point she is there but I guess she could not hear me knocking, I go back to the computer lab once her lights are out because there was no hope anymore that she would hear me, waiting for someone to potentially let me crash on their couch (has yet to happen, and I doubt it will at this point), waiting for the last person (other than me) to leave the computer lab so I can curl up under the desk and sleep, have not eaten in over 12 hours, and will probably have to go a full day without eating...not to mention getting slowly more sleep-deprived.

The point of this all is that my mind somehow thought it would be a good idea to look at the liberty-related Facebook pages I am the admin of and compare gender stats. This idea may have come from me noticing a male friend sharing a post from Libertarian Chicks, and that got me thinking...

I am not sure if I found this surprising or not.

I decided to check out the insights for the Western Libertarians page - the libertarian club I am the president of (as of writing this post) at Western Washington University.

And to think I thought the last one was bad...

These are the results for WWU Students for Sensible Drug Policy - of which I am also the president.

While this page, Liberty Enjoyed, has less than fifty likes, it keeps up with the trend. I actually thought it would have more women, based on the context for why I made it and the content.

Along the lines of Liberty Enjoyed, I decided to check out the stats for Better Because - the Facebook entity for my mom's book.

Now will you look at that.

Is libertarianism being branded in a way that mostly appeals to males? If so, should we make it female-friendly or gender-neutral?

Should we take the Julie Borowski approach and focus on the individuals, or should we take a hint from Cathy Reisenwitz and address issues that certain groups of people (in this case, women) almost exclusively have to deal with?

Because this is not a random sample, I am curious to see what other liberty-related Facebook pages show gender-wise. Comment with that information by just typing it or uploading a screenshot.

These results could also be because these pages deal with politics - a subject that women in our society are not encouraged to keep track with or enjoy for that matter.

If you know people who are admins of liberal, conservative, socialist, etc. pages, I think we would all be interested in seeing what the results are for those.

I found it interesting that only "men" and "women" appeared for gender - no "other" or anything else, especially since Facebook now gives you the option to customize your gender. I guess it could be because that nobody who likes these pages have identified themselves (at least on Facebook) as another gender, but that is another story.