Gender Balance in Science Blog Networks — Update
Updated stats on the science blog gender balance across ten blogging networks
Last week I posted an admittedly quick and dirty analysis of the gender balance in and across seven science blogging networks. The analysis didn’t include all the networks is could have, and inevitably suggestions came in for some that it might be worth taking a look at.
The plot below adds three networks (rather, two networks and a large multi-author blog — almost a network!) to the data presented in the previous post — the Popular Science Blogs Network, SciLogs.com and the Finch & Pea..
The analysis now covers 240 science blogs. Overall, with the inclusion of the three additional networks, the blog gender balance is 52% male and 36% female (with the remaining 13% accounting for multi-author mixed gender blogs, and blogs where author gender isn’t readily determinable). The high relative number of male authors on SciLogs.com (68% male to 26% female) push the balance further towards male authors compared to the previous analysis. However, both Popular Science and Finch & Pea have a markedly greater number of female authors (53% to 41% female-male for Popular Science, and 63% to 38% for Finch & Pea).
The Finch & Pea isn’t strictly speaking a blog network — but as a science blog cooperative I thought it came close enough to be worth including.
I’m not sure I’ll have the time for further updates, but please let me know if there are other significant networks that might be interesting including.
Update: Also check out ScienceNews.org — 7 active blogs, 6 authored by women
