Contrary to popular belief that has geeky looking guys standing in front of the monitor for hours and doing stuff that matters, a Pew Internet & American Life Project study has showed that it’s actually girls that get most involved with the web and all that it stands for. And I did say girls, not women, as the research focused mostly on teenagers.
As difficult to admit as it is, it looks like young females are actually
more creative than their gender opposite. Blogging has proven this most accurate, as the data collected by Pew has showed that 35 percent of girls aged 12 to 17 have their own page to share their thoughts, while only 15 percent of the boys are keen on letting the world know what they’re thinking about.
"Most guys don’t have patience for this kind of thing," said Nicole Dominguez, 13, of Miramar, Fla, for The New York Times. She, for one, enjoys designing free icons, layouts and glitters for MySpace pages of her friends and the Internet in general. It’s funny to hear a 13-year-old talk about this and generalize in such a manner and there’d be a lot of critique involved in case she weren’t right. Sadly, she is.
Building web sites for others or social networking pages is also girl dominated, as 70 percent of them aged 15 to 17 have one, as opposed to only 57 percent of the guys in the same age category.
Don’t worry, though, alpha males or, should I say, alpha geeks! They might rule creative content, but they’re a little over a quarter of the employees in the computer industry. You’ll show them who has the last laugh when you’ll be working in the basement at your startup and girls will be on TV hosting a talk show with all the stars!
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