Ginny made the following observation several weeks ago :

Here you bring up a question I've wondered about for a long time: why, at best, my journal-keeping workshops draw only one-third men, when on the evaluation everyone writes that yes, they'd recommend the workshop to men as well as women. I've thought about starting a blog but then wondered to what extent I'd want to "go public" with what's on my mind. This is always a concern of women in my workshop (say, even about reading aloud something they've written). But aren't most bloggers men? I've read only a few, but I now have Rebecca Blood's book. (So many books, so little time.)

I don't know whether more bloggers are men....I suspect so since I guess that most bloggers are those who have easy access to networked computers -- and aren't there more men than women who fit this description? A relevant article is Lisa Guernsey's "Telling All Online: It's a Man's World (Isn't It?)" in the NY Times (November 28, 2002, Thursday, Late Edition - Final; Section G; Page 1; Column 1; Circuits), which is archived on Lisa Rein's blog.

My personal experience with blogging has not made think that blogging is a male-dominated medium. Of course, maybe what I really mean is that it is not any more male-dominated than other forms of media, and that I have encountered very significant female voices in the blogging world -- first and foremost in my own immediate blogging community and then also in the blogosphere at large. I hadn't heard any comments from women bloggers about particularly gender differences in blogging -- but then again, I might not have been listening carefully (or I may not have been privileged to hear them).

I'm very curious to hear the perspective of other bloggers, especially women on this topic.

BTW, a piece on writing differences between men and women (as uncovered by computer analysis and manifest in the use of pronouns) that Catherine found has possible ties here.