The definitive linkspam of this decade (1st January, 2010)

• Scientific American claims, “Gal Gamers Geekier Than Guys.” In particular, the study found that the people who were playing the most everquest were older women, not the stereotypical teenaged boy. They claim that “when it comes to dominating the virtual world, women are actually more hardcore than men.”
• Johanna Rothman discusses problematic terminology for referring to the human beings who make up project teams in A Rant on People, Resources, Men and Women
• Technical and building toys and child gender came up a few times late December on Sociological Images:
  • Judging from the Toys ‘R Us website boys build technology, and girls use it.
  • Again from Toys ‘R Us, in their marketing girls use pink telescopes and microscopes, and the pink ones have less powerful magnification. There’s also comment at Phrayngula and The Consumerist.

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