Perseus Development Corporation says women bloggers comprise 56 percent of the blogging population. A recent Pew Internet survey says women comprise 43 percent.

As a degree-holder in Sociology, a journalist who has written about the online world since the pre-Web days and as a blogger- admittedly of the "Y" chromosome tribe- I have been fascinated by these numbers and the questions they engender.

My innate (some would say irritating) curiosity drove me to investigate further. That's...