Gender Confusion04/22/2004 10:43 PM I really wish spammers would get their story straight. Hey, I just
wanted to share with you the experiences I've had in the past...
Gender and style
Gender and style12/11/2003 11:53 PM
I rarely quote another blog's entry in its entirety, but this one
needed to appear whole. It's from Dorothea Salo, reacting to Edd
Dumbill's report, on XML.com, about something I said in my Tuesday
keynote:
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Gender Genie
Gender Genie12/30/2003 01:26 AM Interesting... This neat little program claims it
can guess the author's sex by the distribution of words in text. At
least it guessed my sex correctly, but it did make the grave mistake
of thinking that one of the people on my blogroll (right) is a male,
even though I'm pretty sure she's a lady :).
Bluetooth, Gender Roles, Something About How Men Are Awesome
Bluetooth, Gender Roles, Something About How Men Are Awesome04/26/2004 12:59 PM Zero Sum/Guerilla Research has some interesting bluetooth statistics
(Wait! Come back!) from a survey of 1500 individuals in one of
London's central business districts:68% of personalised devices were
given 'male' names, with only 20% allocated a 'female' name. Although
mobile phone ownership is higher for men than women in the...
"I feel like I'm at a Microsoft monastery here," wrote Rory Blyth from
the most recent Professional Developers Conference. "I think I've seen
about 2.5 females ... it's like they're an endangered species." The
observation holds equally true for open source conferences.
...
If we expect social software to help rewrite the productivity
equation, social skills and protocols become critical parts of the
game. How can social software succeed if, in its development, half the
population is so poorly represented? [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
This column touches on two third-rail issues: personality and gender.
The Wired
article on Asperger's syndrome cited in the column was incorrectly
dated, by the way. My error: it was of course published in 2001, not
1991. That slipped past me and my editors, but my friend Larry Welkowitz, a
psychologist and AS specialist, caught it.
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Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online01/17/2004 10:53 PM A UCLA study says Italy and Spain have the largest gap between men and
women who are online, while Chinese users are most likely to credit
the Internet for connecting them politically.
Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online (AP)
Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online (AP)01/17/2004 11:02 PM AP - Italy and Spain have the largest gap between men and women who
are online, while Chinese users are most likely to credit the Internet
for connecting them with the politically like-minded, according to a
worldwide study coordinated by UCLA.
Gender guide tells men what she's really saying (Reuters)
Mobile usage shows gender split06/02/2004 02:32 AM Men prefer mobile games while women are downloading ringtones to their
phones, research has found.
Is Gender-Based Pricing Fair? (Reuters)
Is Gender-Based Pricing Fair? (Reuters)03/17/2005 03:16 AM Reuters - Most women, accustomed to paying more
than men for goods and services like clothes and hair cuts,
simply shrug it off as part of life, but an Ontario legislator
hopes to end all that.
Gender Gap in Monkey Cognition Closes with Training, Age
Gender gap plagues Arab online growth: report (AFP)
Gender gap plagues Arab online growth: report (AFP)02/19/2004 03:38 PM AFP - Fewer than a quarter of viewers of general portal websites in
the Middle East are women, the Arab Advisors Group found in a study,
linking the phenomenon to poor advertising revenues.
Leader, Muddled by Gender, Bans TV Make-Up (Reuters)
Leader, Muddled by Gender, Bans TV Make-Up (Reuters)08/12/2004 09:24 AM Reuters - Turkmenistan's authoritarian
president, whose recent decrees have included banning gold
teeth, has told television presenters to stop wearing make-up
because he had difficulty telling the men from the women.
Falling in Love -- a Gender-Bending Experience (Reuters)
