Female and male bloggers, Sexism and Blogher

Wouldn't you know it?? I couldn't believe it when I saw it! Sexism exists in the blogging arena too? Damn that pisses me off. I just started blogging and it didn't even occur to me this would be an issue. I thought since we're all just writing, the playing field would be level. Cripes.

I came across Social Cache last week, and a discussion of the inequalities between male and female bloggers. Nubby's post was inspired by an article in the NY Times, and the Blogher conference last week.

First I got mad, but then I got an Idea (which happens from time to time). It's easy for me to become a male blogger isn't it? Ha! So I'm going to do it. EXCEPT I'm not going to tell you my name! Next time you're reading some guy's fascinating blog, you might be reading me!

Here's some information I found from a small Swedish study done earlier this year on the differences between male and female bloggers:

• Women more often blog anonymously than men (49.2% compared to 34.0%).
• Male bloggers blog to a higher extent than female bloggers to market a product or a service, to influence others, to strengthen their brand, to create an archive of information and because there is a need for more voices in the public debate.
• Female bloggers blog to a higher extent than male bloggers to get in touch with others and to stay in touch with friends and family.
• 66.5% of all bloggers update their blog every day. Female bloggers update their blogs more often than male bloggers (74.1% at least once a day, compared to 42.6% of male bloggers).
• Male bloggers more often than female bloggers have ads on their blogs (14.3% compared to 7.4%). Here's the full study