JKR's sex bias

[voicelady]

No: HPFGUIDX 3581

Time for me to add my 2 knuts:

We know that JKR wrote these stories for herself, but OF COURSE her main objective was in getting them published so that other people could enjoy them, too.  And I wonder if subconsciously she made the story more geared to boys than girls.  Statistically speaking, girls are bigger readers than boys,  and there is less of a social stigma for a girl to read a "boy" book.  I think it's quite possible that she wrote it from a boy's POV simply to appeal to more readers.