Robin Lloyd at Scientific American has a great post up about one of my sessions at ScienceOnline2011 which was entitled "Perils of blogging as a woman under a real name." I plan to write more about the panel and encourage you to go read her terrific coverage of our discussion:
Blogging and other Web activities have allowed members of many marginalized communities to open previously locked media doors. But women still rely more on back channels and ask for less help than men do in the digital realm..For instance, comments posted to The Intersection blog, co-authored by Sheril Kirshenbaum (@Sheril_) and Chris Mooney (@ChrisMooney_), tend to come from men, Kirshenbaum said, but emails to the blog authors typically come from women or children. "Culturally, as women, we are less likely to speak out or argue," Kirshenbaum said, adding that women tend to create communities, and mentor and co-market one another ...
