{"id":1406,"date":"2008-01-26T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/2008\/01\/1406"},"modified":"2008-01-26T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:37:10","slug":"why-more-ladies-than-men-at-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"Why more ladies than men at gatherings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the last SHC monthly gathering at Hans Cafe @ Great Eastern Bldg on Thurs, 17 Jan, I noticed there were 60% men and 40% women.&nbsp; There was no agenda, and everybody was free to chat and meet new friends.&nbsp; Joining the different tables, I hear serious&nbsp;chatter on work, business,&nbsp;online trading and outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<p>However, for most other social gatherings, ladies usually form the larger pie.&nbsp; Their voices&nbsp;tend to be louder.&nbsp; The conversation tends on&nbsp;focus on dancing, afternoon tea meetups,&nbsp;sports, beauty ideas&nbsp;and quiet meet-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Our membership has an&nbsp;approx&nbsp;50:50&nbsp;ratio.&nbsp; Anybody got any suggestion and feedback on how to create an environment for equal participation.&nbsp; To encourage old and new members&#8217; feedback,&nbsp;please respect other members&#8217; comments and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Terence Seah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the last SHC monthly gathering at Hans Cafe @ Great Eastern Bldg on Thurs, 17 Jan, I noticed there were 60% men and 40% women.&nbsp; There was no agenda, and everybody was free to chat and meet new friends.&nbsp; Joining the different tables, I hear serious&nbsp;chatter on work, business,&nbsp;online trading and outdoor activities. However, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=1406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why more ladies than men at gatherings?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,40,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-reflections","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}