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Elizabeth Chandler: Goodreads' audience was 75% female

Elizabeth Chandler · Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler · Feb 7, 2022 · at 45:50

Goodreads co-founder Elizabeth Chandler discusses user demographics and why the platform attracted commercial advertisers.

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“I think we had a lot of statistics on, on our users in terms of just education, gender the site's 75% women.”

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Approximately 75% of Goodreads' user base was female.

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Assessment

Elizabeth Chandler's estimate that approximately 75% of Goodreads' user base was female is substantiated by both internal operational figures and independent demographic analyses. In December 2009, Goodreads officially announced that 70% of its 2.8 million members were female, while syndicated Quantcast measurement data in 2015 and 2018 consistently measured the audience at approximately 70% female. Furthermore, an April 2017 study published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology analyzing a sample of 50,000 profiles found that approximately 75% of users reporting gender were female, and a 2019 study in the Journal of Documentation found an average of 72% female membership across reading groups. Across all benchmarks, the user base consistently measured between 70% and 75% female, directly supporting the approximate figure.

Goodreads December 10, 2009 press release stating that 'seventy percent are female' among its 2.8 million members.
April 2017 Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology study finding that approximately 75% of public profile members reporting gender were female.
Quantcast demographic measurements (2015 and 2018) indicating Goodreads' audience was approximately 70% female.

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