For whatever reason, many of them, really.

Motley Fool members are predominantly male.

Fact.

Perhaps it's because we were started by two brothers,

not two sisters.

Perhaps it's because looking back over our culture of the past few

centuries at least it's been men in the West who traditionally played the role of

breadwinners and money managers.

That isn't to say they're particularly good

at managing money.

Many a study has suggested that women are actually better investors.

And you know the meaning of that word, dear listener.

We've gone over it's Latin roots many a time.

Some of the so-called female energy traits of patience, endurance, humility, there are others truly sing off the same song sheet of how foolish investing works and why it works.

So I love my fool women particularly because I'm married to one but also because you are a minority at our events as our

subscribers and yes as listeners of this podcast in the same way I celebrate the kids who write in because conventional wisdom makes it sound like

kids couldn't be interested in investing.

It isn't nearly as cool as skateboards or video games or Roblox.

For this reason, I often give carte blanche to the younger people who write in

to be featured on this podcast.

And I also try to make a point of being especially welcome for female fools.

Well, maybe it was because Rick Engdahl named last month's male bag, Invest, like a girl,

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