Comments on: Strange Bias

By: Karla

Karla — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:51:56 +0000

As a technical writer and previously as an electronic technician, 99.9% of my coworkers have been men. So it stands to reason that the technical bloggers would be men, too. This is not to say that women don’t blog. One of the technical blogs I read is Shang-hai Techwriter, by a woman in China. Almost all of the non-technical blogs I read (Formerly Hot, At Home with the Farmer’s Wife, How Not to Act old, et al) are written by women. Because math and science programs are designed and taught predominantly by and for men, I don’t expect we’ll see that change any time soon.

By: Anne Gentle

Anne Gentle — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:26:38 +0000

Was writing a lonnng comment and decided to turn it into a post! As a woman blogger, I wanted to make sure I got return on time invested in writing. Just kidding. :)

http://justwriteclick.com/2010/02/19/i-am-who-i-am/

Cheers.

By: I Am Who I Am | Just Write Click

I Am Who I Am | Just Write Click — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:25:21 +0000

[...] media, techpubs, writing I’m late to write up my thoughts on Gordon Mclean’s post, Strange Bias, but I give him a belated thumbs up for great self-inspection and data query in the [...]

By: Cecily

Cecily — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:11:59 +0000

I am a female software technical author and for all my career I have worked in places where most of the developers are men and most of the authors are women.

However, the gender split in the blogs I follow is even stronger than Gordon’s. Of the seven or eight I read regularly, only one is by a woman, and of the ones I check more occasionally, the ratio is similar.

I suppose one obvious answer is to try to rectify the balance by taking up blogging!

By: Catherine Hibbard

Catherine Hibbard — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:28:00 +0000

I actually never thought about this issue before, but now that you raise it, it’s worth discussing. I will tweet about it to other technical communicators and see if we can get more people to express an opinion.