Where are the Woman Bloggers?
Posted on September 13th, 2007
I was going through my daily routine of browsing my RSS reader and a though occurred to me. Of the 400+ RSS feeds only 3% or less of them are woman. I am really wondering why that is. As I am not a woman maybe some of our woman readers here can share their thoughts on that?
This also got me to thinking if our own blog was something appealing to both men and women. I notice a lot of men comment but women that comment on this blog are fare and few between. Even on popular blogs like John Chow, ProBlogger and Shoemoney there are very few woman that comment. If you are a woman reader can you maybe share your thoughts on this? If our blog is not appealing to woman if you can provide some input as to how we could improve?
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I have a very sensitive side, maybe I can figure out a way to draw the women readers in and get comments. And no sensitive don’t mean gay.
lol @ Collin
A US survey revealed that more women than men are bloggers. 20% of American women who have visited blogs have their own blog, versus 14% of men.
With the IT Businesses being (for the most part) still a male dominated industry, you’re probably not seeing a lot of women reading or commenting on BlueFur simpy because the pool of women who’d find it relevant is much smaller then the pool of men.
If your blog was about fashion, homemakers, parenting, baking (hows that for sterotyping) you’d probably see the percentage of women readers rise significantly.