I was recently engaged in a conversation about why women, as a general rule, don't listen to Pink Floyd. I realize that this opens me to hearing "But *I* do..." but whatever. One theory that came up was that men (especially younger men) are more likely to do the "headphone rock" thing where you are only listening to music as opposed to listening to music while doing homework or driving or dancing or washing the dishes. After a moment's thought I agreed that that method of listening to music seemed somewhat uniquely male and, after another moment, admitted that I haven't spent enough time spying on young women to actually say.
Rather than risk getting myself on a sex offenders' registry, I'll ask here instead. Do/did you female folk spend significant time just purely listening to music? Pop in an album, sit on the couch and just listen? It really does seem to just be a dude thing.