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No less than Ellen Goodman and the time, money and effort of the Shorenstein Fellowships at Harvard have examined the “new gender gap in news media and the Internet.” Why? Because people often ask about why there seem to be more male political bloggers than female.
Other bloggers, including well-known female political bloggers like Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, don’t see the disparity:
There’s plenty of sexism in the blogosphere, don’t get me wrong, with a strong dose coming from the right wing and an even stronger dose coming from the “why don’t you link to me” crowd on the left. But this “there are no women in the blogosphere” whinge is deeply sexist and insulting to those of us with two X chromosomes who work all day at this and what we’ve managed to achieve. And none of these articles have included the perspective of any of the women listed above, or those of other successful female bloggers like Digby, Pandagon, TalkLeft or Taylor Marsh.
Today, Catherine Morgan of Informed Voter posted a list of more than 100 women political bloggers and blogs. It’s completely nonpartisan (I’m there, Lisa Renee’s Liberal Common Sense is there, and so is Mary Katherine Ham of Townhall and Michelle Malkin) and includes many new to me. Big kudos to Morgan for putting this list together. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one like it before.
Dipping deeper into the sea of blogs? This list is another good place to test out the temperature.
Cross-posted at Wide Open.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:40 am October 4th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Politics, Women, Writing
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Thanks so much for your kind recognition of my post on women political bloggers.
Catherine
Catherine, seriously - thank YOU. I’m not really sure what the whole story is re: women, politics and blogging. People point to Arianna Huffington and Michelle Malkin, Firedoglake, Digby - these are great examples of women in the political blogging sphere.
But still - I don’t know…I’m not convinced our voices are out there enough.
Your list neutralizes the question by simply saying - want to go where the girls are? Here’s over 100 places to start!
So thanks. I like solutions almost as much as questions.
Thanks Jill. I think our voices are getting stronger, but we still have a long way to go. But, the more we stick together and support each other, the stronger our voices will become.
Really? They did a study on that? Sounds like they need to spend some quality time online.
Hi Becky -
You mean the Ellen Goodman thing? Yeah - you know - what I think I have to remember though is that she probably thought of that issue over a year ago, whenever she would have applied for the fellowship but even so, I think she was coming at it from the “no women are on the opeds and on the mastheads” perspective. I haven’t seen her final work yet - I should check over there.
I think this 100+ list is a great help though - esp. to get away from the straight mom-blogs. I write mom column and read the mom blogs - but the 50-100% political ones by women I don’t find as easily. Happy to have a guide.