Music and Gender

Growing up I found that gender didn't really have much to do with our listening choices. It was more of a social clique thing. The "popular" kids listened to all the hip music on the radio and then there were the "nerds" and by nerds I mean the theater kids, math team, academic bowl, Science Olympiad, explorers club, band, chorus, and orchestra (yes I was in all of those groups...). We listened to all the classic rock, oldies, jazz, swing, etc. It was always weird to me how the different cliques had different music taste. It almost seemed as if the music choices determined the cliques.
As a member of the marching band I did always notice the differences in which genders played which instruments. The flutes and clarinets were almost all girls, though we did have a few guys. Part of that was the face that we had over 30 flute and clarinets. The brass instruments were almost all guys with the exception of maybe 3 or 4 trumpet players. Our drum line had all guys that marched and the girls were expected to play in the pit on the side line.
When I was a freshman in high school we had a male drum major and everyone seemed to keep the attitude that the drum major should always be male. However, my sophomore year, we had a chick, and then male my junior year, but then another chick my senior year. So over all I think my school was pretty good about not making decisions for music positions based on gender.

I dunno...gender has never really played a huge role in music in my life I guess.