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He vs. She

Posted by Miko on May 8th, 2007 at 6:35 pm · 5 Comments

We did this awhile back with music, but now there’s a site that uses Google to determine how gender imbalanced a site is and in which direction. MoF is substantially biased in the female direction with a ratio of 1:2 (34%:66%, M:F). This compares to CNN’s 77:23, BlogHer’s 32:68, and AllRecipes.com’s 59:41. How do some of your most frequented sites stack up?

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Tags: Feminism

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Elaine Frei // May 8, 2007 at 5:03 pm

    That’s interesting. As it stands today (before I post an entry about some men and their behavior, as it happens), my blog sits right at 50:50. The science fiction/fantasy forum where I’m a moderator is at 63:37, male to female.

  • 2 Jonathan // May 8, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    I’m at 53/47! Pretty good!

  • 3 Miko // May 8, 2007 at 5:58 pm

    some of mine (the ones noted above were listed on the site when I put in MoFs url):
    geeky:
    Geekology: 83:17
    Apple: 34:66
    Wired: 76:24
    feminist: (very broadly defined, I included CWA for comparison)
    Feministing: 30:70
    Concerned Women for America: 65:35
    Womens eNews: 36:64
    newsy:
    Christian Science Monitor: 71:29
    Alternet: 68:32
    other: I was interested that one of my favorite blogs got this score, so I\’m including it:
    Dooce: 50:50

  • 4 John // May 8, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    I’m glad MoF has this bias, since feminism is one of our key emphases. There’s a lot of talk here about women’s issues in particular, so the feminine pronouns should pop up a lot. I guess you could come up with analogies for sites that explicitly tackled homophobia or racism.

    There was another site I encountered maybe a year or so ago that was a gender predictor: it analyzed a range of keywords for any text or url you plugged into it. Does this ring any bells?

    It predicted that MoF was written by a woman. I was kind of proud of that. :)

  • 5 Elise // May 10, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    My blog is 40% he, 60% she.
    Other sites I was curious in, and the results:

    http://www.lds.org - 65% he, 35% she

    California Board of Accountancy (http://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/): 55% he, 45% she

    American Insitute of CPAs (www.aicpa.org): 61% he, 39% she

    Financial Accounting Standards Board (www.fasb.org): 75% he, 25: she….OUCH!!!

    More female representation for accountants, please! :-)

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