"Men want facts, women seek relations on Web," take two

It's not as Mars/Venus as the press makes it look.

Published December 30, 2005 8:00PM (EST)

Ever-awesome Echidne of the Snakes comes through with a close read of the Pew study of gender and Internet use -- and a damning look at "how the popularization of [the] findings warps their meaning and serves to reinforce existing gender roles."

See, women do use the web to "investigate products."


By Lynn Harris

Award-winning journalist Lynn Harris is author of the comic novel "Death by Chick Lit" and co-creator of BreakupGirl.net. She also writes for the New York Times, Glamour, and many others.

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