Stuttering is a strange case of disorder which seems to prefer a section of the population than the others. With causes and remedies being unknown, the prevalence of these disorders in a certain sect is also unknown. The categories of people who seem to belong n this fateful section are children and men. While the reason for the dominance of the stuttering problem in these sections of people is unknown, it has been a proven fact till now that men are more prone to stuttering than women.

The ratio of men stutterers to women stutterers have always been high and this is also the case with children. But the ratio differs as the age increases and this difference is again in favor of the fairer sex. While it is observed that the ratio of boy stutterers to girl stutterers is two to one, this number changes to a ratio of four to one with the men and women. The recovery from stuttering was also favorable to women and girl children as the female sex is known to have recovered better and faster than males.

One other noticeable trait with respect to stuttering and gender is that natural recovery is far better in women than in men. This has also been noticed in the younger age group where girls tend to recover from their stuttering by the time they reach the teenage years while boys outgrow this problem only at a later stage if at all they do recover naturally.

Even with extensive research not much has been revealed about the link between gender and stuttering. At the moment, much has been speculated on the genetic design of the individual being reasonable for this domination of stuttering in men. This genetic design also contributes to the theory that men are chronic stutterers while women aren't. Also, the case of women being severe stutterers is amazingly lesser when compared to the severity of their male counterparts.

The only near conclusive idea that has been proposed so far to show the link between gender and stuttering is the difference in the genetic pattern and design of the male and female genders. With not many theories being able to support this case of men being affected more by the stuttering problem than women, there is a lot of scope for research in this area and researchers are trying hard to find the correlation between the two.