Hunting is a very social activity that often involves the help of many people, whether they're a hunting partner, or someone who gives you advice about locations, or even just the butcher or taxidermist all help you. Although nobody despises female hunters people have tight circles in which they interact with not allowing anyone knew to come in. Women often feel uncomfortable among all of the male hunters which plays a large role in the female hunting population. In Field and Stream Larisa Turville shares her experience hunting “It's a funny thing being a woman and walking into a lodge of a bunch of men. The first day, they look at you like you've got green skin and scales. You are sort of entering this very private guy club, and they don't know how to react. By the second day, however, I instantly had forty new best buddies.” This expresses the struggle of breaking those initial thoughts and beliefs, once Turville did this it was a great experience but getting through those first moments is very difficult. Also Field and Stream they took a survey which questioned women on if they think they'd be better at hunting than males, many thought they were equal and enjoyed being in the outdoors a lot. The survey really reflected how engaged women are and want to be in hunting.
If there is going to be a change in hunting gender populations then men will have to apart of the change as well. Many women that hunted said they just wanted to be treated like the other male hunters and be comfortable around them. Hunting is an activity that should be available to anyone and not scare people away on their first experience. Fishing is also a male dominated industry for the same reasons as hunting. There have been events to introduce more women to hunting such as dinners and other efforts but still more needs to done. According to BBC News laws have been passed by five states that allow people to wear pink as a blaze orange in an attempt to make women feel more comfortable. Billions of dollars were invested into this law and hopefully other states join this trend to encourage new people to try hunting. Although this is a good effort more needs to be done, the statistics for the hunting industry don't lie, men greatly outnumber women this sport that should be open to anyone.