Women Bloggers

Women's eNews (this is the first I've heard of this particular site btw) has a read-worthy article entitled "Women Go Blogging and Find Freedom of Speech." So, what's the dilly yo with women bloggers?

More women than men start blogs and they're also more likely to keep them, according to a study conducted by Perseus Development Corp., a Web-based market research firm based in Braintree, Mass. The study notes that the number of hosted blogs is expected to exceed 10 million by the end of 2004. It also found that women created 56 percent of surveyed blogs.


Opinion pages in most newspapers are dominated by male voices. With so few women editorial or opinion writers, blogs have become many women's method of choice to get their opinions heard.

I would expand this increased opportunity to voice one's opinion to anyone who is of any minority--gender, race, sexuality, religion, anyone... Plus, anyone who has paritcularly racy or controversial things to say! Some of the best editorial work I've seen in the last few years has been on random people's blogs, as they discuss, honestly, their own views. I think we get a much-filtered down version of that honesty in our newspapers, online news sites, and television & radio news shows.

link via Misbehaving.net via Metamanda