One of the usual questions in MA is 'where are the women?'

How to get them into the class, how to keep them...and if contact is a major issue/perception that needs to be overcome. So, when I hear other female MAists here (and there are not many) say 'I love kata/patterns/form' I wonder if there is more than the female need to organize

. Anyway, is there a gender difference in preference for kata?