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  • Women Rule The Blogosphere As Both Bloggers & Visitors

    Women Rule The Blogosphere As Both Bloggers & Visitors

    Of all days, today being International Women’s Day, a timely study was released today by NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company, revealing that women make up the majority of bloggers.

    NM Incite tracked over millions blogs from around the world to compile the data for their study. Blogs have boomed as an industry in recent years, escalating from 36 million in 2006 to 181 million at the time of the study. If the trajectory of growth is any indication, the saturation point for blogs doesn’t seem to be anywhere in sight because the study speculates that consumer interest is still on the rise.

    While women are the majority in the bloggersphere, the study also found that 1 in 3 bloggers are mothers and that 52% of bloggers are parents with children under the age of 18 living in their household. Beyond just being curators and authors of blogs, though, women also make up the majority when it comes to social network and blog visitors.

    Additionally, nearly all of the bloggers these days are well-educated as 7 of 10 have gone to college, most of whom are graduates. So not only are more blogs being managed by women, but by highly intelligent women to boot.

    While much has been made of Pinterest‘s women-centric demographic, the NM Incite study found that the “visually-oriented social media site” is growing like gangbusters, with over 10 million unique U.S. visitors this past December alone – that’s nearly twice as many visitors as the site had two months earlier in October.

    So hats off to the ladies out there in the internets. Apparently, it’s your blogosphere – the rest of us just live in it.

  • International Women’s Day Celebrated With Google Doodle

    Today’s Google Doodle swaps out the blue for the purple and replaces the big “G” with the symbol for woman. That’s because March 8th is International Women’s Day. Evolving over the course of many years, today, International Women’s Day celebrates the achievements of women, in all different facets of our culture.

    The United States first celebrated a national Woman’s day in 1909. After an International Women’s conference was held in 2010, and International Day was established in 1911. Here’s how that all came about:

    In 1910, a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named a Clara Zetkin (Leader of the ‘Women’s Office’ for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women’s Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day – a Women’s Day – to press for their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties, working women’s clubs, and including the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament, greeted Zetkin’s suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women’s Day was the result.

    The first celebration was less of a “celebration” in the strict sense, in that much of International Women’s Day involved demonstrations and various other protests concerning suffrage and discrimination in the workplace.

    Today, much of the celebration has spilled over to social media. And though not everyone is embracing the political and social message of the day in full, they are still honoring women in general:

    @womensday
    Women’s Day 8 March    Almost 500 planned #womensday events occurring across US & Canada right now. Happy International Women’s Day everyone ! 57 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    @Lagarde
    Christine Lagarde    Happy International Women’s day. My advice to young women: educate yourselves, work hard, be brave, and help each other. 29 minutes ago via Facebook ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    @Timberland
    Timberland    In honor of International Women’s Day, we salute the extraordinary accomplishments of women around the world! 7 minutes ago via Postling ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    @AskMen
    AskMen.com    Happy International Women’s Day – Women of the world, we love you. 26 minutes ago via SocialFlow ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Last year, celebrations took place in over 100 countries across the world. Since the year 2000, International Women’s Day has become an official holiday in countries like Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, Cuba, Kazakhstan, and Zambia. In some of these countries, International Women’s Day is celebrated in a fashion similar to Mother’s Day – you know, doting on the women of the house and such.

    And the IWD site has turned this thing into a contest in way, charting a leaderboard for events around the world. and as of right now, it appears that the UK is celebrating their women more than anyone else:

    How will you celebrate International Women’s Day? Let us know in the comments.

  • Google Doodle for International Women’s Day and Gender Wage Gap

    The Youtube video below explains that International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Women’s Day, is marked on March 8th every year. The way in which the day is celebrated varies from region to region but everyone who participates focuses on the political, economic, and social accomplishments made by females. The event began as a Socialist political event that blended cultures from Eastern Europe, the Soviet bloc, and Russia. IWD began to drift from its roots in many coutries and became just another day for men to celebrate women while the event was still recognized in the U.S. as a time to examine and discuss political and social issues and rights.

    The theme song for the Google doodle title “True Romance” by Kevin McLeod sounds like it should be used for a Zanax or Menopause commercial. I don’t know why, but this song makes me feel a little depressed. I also have to admit that it reminds me of songs from a Charlie Brown movie, placed during skits where Brown is walking around feeling sad and isolated:

    According to Washington Post writer, Michael Cavna, there are thousands of events worldwide — both today and throughout the month, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe — are staged to honor women’s causes and achievements politically, economically and culturally. And different groups choose different empowering themes: The U.N. says the overall theme is “Empower Rural Women — End Hunger and Poverty”; the European Parliament has voted for the slogan ”Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value”; and the hub website International Women’s Day has picked “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures.”

    The Sacramento Bee article “On International Women’s Day, Close in Gender Wage Gap Does Not Mean Progress” by The Institute for Women’s Policy Research indicates that a considerable wage gap still exists between men and women “the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that in 2011 women earned 17.8 percent less than men for a week of full-time work.” Women of color experienced an even greater wage gap, “black women’s median full-time weekly earnings were only 69.5 percent, and Hispanic women’s only 60.5 percent, of the median weekly earnings of white men.”

    While it is nice to have a day, it would be much better to get equal pay. That way more women could by cards, candy, and flowers on their own.