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>> I don't want to stir up a gender battle, but my observation of Dummies
>> books is that they are designed, written and marketed toward a largely
>> female readership, on the whole, with a secondary market being people
>> who are retraining and/or learning to use computers later in life.
Rowena's observation may or may not be generally valid. but I have read the
Author's Guidelines for the Dummies book series, and I don't recall anything
of the sort being mentioned. In fact, the editorial staff strives to make the
books gender-neutral. The books I've seen (and I've looked through a few
pretty closely 8^) don't strike me as biased toward men or women.
If the books are most used by women, it's not because of any particular effort
to make them female-friendly 8^)
-- Steve
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