Why INTJ Females Are Rare

Included are about 120 comments from INTJ women over a 5 year period from an article, now deleted, that had more than 1 million reads.

The INTJ woman — Alone, Analytical, and Fabulous, Anyway! Pixabay: Photo: Anja

There is 1 INTJ female for every 500 women

For every five hundred women, only four have an INTJ profile. Natural leaders and highly competent they may be, but they are often misunderstood. Here’s why.

INTJ stands for Introverted, Intuition, Thinker, and Judgment. It’s one of the sixteen Myers-Briggs profiles, the most popularly utilized psychometric test in the world. Corporations often use the MBTI to determine whether the person is well-suited to a particular job or not. INTJs are natural leaders but prefer not to be leaders. They only take on leadership roles when it’s important that they do.

Because the INTJ woman is very different, it means that she is often misunderstood.

Her essential characteristics are as follows:

1. INTJ women respond differently to being told they are INTJ than men do. Men love it. Women not so much.
2. Fewer than 1% of females fall into the INTJ classification.
3. When dating an INTJ female, it’s best to give her space and treat her professionally in the…