Comments on: Why do there appear to be more male than female bloggers?

By: karen

karen — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:35:51 +0000

I had a look at the blogs on the T list
http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/?p=226
out of the 13 only one had a female author. What you say about the type of blog, Armold, is true. However I think that travel does not fall into the category of the male dominated field, borne out by the statistic about 60% of women in UK mixed sex couples book online travel for the couple.

I don’t think ithat readers care whether a blog is written by a male or female, as long as it has useful and interesting posts. I am merely suprised and curious as to why the travel blogs authors I have encountered and the commentees (good word Kyle) I’ve observed are predominately male.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:58:42 +0000

I think that it depends on the type of blog.

My guess is that most of the “journal” type blogs are written by women. Certainly if you look at the “American in Paris” ones almost all seem to be written by women as most fall into that journal category.

On the other hand most really high traffic blogs are, on the whole, written by men. Well, those that I’ve come across are but then they are generally techie type ones so more than likely in a male dominated field.

Even within a single blog the commenting varies by topic. I don’t have thousands of comments (yet!) to go on but I get the impression that some types of thing I write attract more males whilst others attract more females.

I think I’d be needing a major increase in blog related income to consider 4 hours a day at it!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:26:50 +0000

Well, looking at Tom Reynold’s Random Acts of Reality, there seems to be a few female commentees, or they have female looking nicknames!