gender and rss
we did a little experiment here at rhapsodic.org to find out how gender balanced we are in our blog reading preferences.
the 'elsewhere' list on the sidebar is comprised of our top desert island blogs. meaning: if stranded on a desert island for some length of time only to discover that by the grace of God the heavens open up and reveal a wifi hot spot in the top branch of the palm tree, those would be the first blogs to check.
the list fluctuates somewhat, but not by much.
in the current list of 14 there are 6 blogs written and maintained by women, and 8 blogs written and maintained by men. while i was suprised to find that the list represented almost as many females as males, it is only a small representation of blogs i check on periodically.
then i turned to my rss feeds on bloglines, and found the following:
- linklogs - 16.7% female; 66.6% male; 16.7% group
- photologs - 33.3% female; 61.1% male; 5.6% unknown
- other blogs - 10.3% female; 70.7% male; 19% group
- total - 22.2% female; 59.0% male; 17.1% group
it would seem that the blogs with which i create a personal connection are maintained equally by men and women. but the blogs i half-heartedly read are mostly maintained by men.
how does your list stack up?
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blogs I hit everytime I sit at the pc are mainly women, you can see that from the list on my page. Then there's the list in my favorites folder which I only hit when I'm bored, and they're split 60/40 at the moment with the 60 being women.
My favorites folder varies though, I add and delete blogs from there on a daily basis.
"I don't work well with the males, 'cuz I used to *be* one."
My regulars are nearly all female bloggers. Even my 'when I really bored' list only includes a few men.
my "usual" list consists of the following:
rhapsodie
not sure what that says... ;)
The majority of my blogs are tech-related, so it's not surprising that they're mostly males. Of the non-tech ones, I think they're mostly female. I've never done an actual survey, though (I would have about 300 to go through).
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