Women! Where are you?

I read loads of blogs. Everyday in my bloglines, thousand of posts make eyes of me. I scan them quickly and pick up the information which interest me. Twitter became also a great source of information. People share links, articles, often great posts. Yesterday, Michelle Blanc, a famous french-speaking expert in online marketing shared a post about the blogosphere who becomes more open to women. In this post we learn that blogosphere is divided into 3 parts : blogs written by men, blogs written by women and mixed blogs. If I try to interpret what it is said :

• Men are geek
• Women speak about “girly subjects” (fashion, sewing, cooking…)
• Some blogs come from Venus, others from Mars (Doesn’t it sound familiar?)

And the author adds :

Et on se doute bien que le mec ne va jamais lire ou s’abonner à un blog de fille et vice-versa.

Understand : we may guess that a guy will never read or subscribe to a blog written by a woman and vice versa.

In my opinion it’s less a question of gender than of interest. All that is simply logical and mathematical.  I’m a girl but I read more men’s blog because subjects I like are handled by them : hi-tech, social media, web 2.0, music etc.  Men can talk about beauty cream and women about cars. It’s just that dispersion is not the same.

We discover, from a classification made by Twingly that the first blog of the  top 100 of most popular blogs written in french is hold by a girl, Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante, a comic-blog drawn by Penelope-Jolicoeur. The first geek-woman only appear at the 43rd position, it’s Michelle Blanc. I’ve read her blog for a long time now and this is a really good one! Even if  in this classification, half of blogs is female, I want to know where women really are. I don’t talk about quantity, but representiveness. I think that men are actually predominant when it deals with web 2.0, politics, hi-tech… Are women more shy? Fortunaly, in my RSS feeds, I read wonderful women’s blog as Michelle Blanc, Maria Reyes-McDavis, Shegeeks etc. But not enough in my liking. And you? Do you read a lot of women’s blogs? Do you have some to recommand me? Are they representativ of blogosphere?