Anyone know much of anything about girl bands, particularly why are so few of them? Englishman speaking.
you're gonna have to clarify what kind of bands you want to see with girls. Metal bands? Folk music bands? Indie rock? Pop? Cover bands? Punk, grunge, reggae? All girl bands, or bands that have at least one female member? Female vocalists? "girl bands" is a pretty broad topic.
As to why there are so few, that's hard to say why when the subject of "girl bands" remains so broad.
I can think of a bunch of bands that have at least one female member off the top of my head. All-female groups are harder, but I can still think of examples.
I'd think a reason --this is off the top of my head and purely logical assumption, no statistics or anything to back it up-- would be that girls with musical interest get into the solo pop/country/whatever branch of music, and that they're encouraged to do so due to the already common number of pop stars and country singers. Additionally, commercial music industries would likely encourage this as well because girls are easier to sexualize and sex appeal is a viable marketing and advertising tactic. *cough Katy Perry cough*
So, girls wind up with the mentality that a "solo" music career is what they're supposed to do, rather than get into a band with others and play instruments, because all the successful musical girls in the past were solo artists who didn't have any specific band group identity.
Do you want examples of female bands? You didn't ask for examples, but I could give examples.