Young girls blog and build Web pages more than boys do.

Evidence

The article drew on data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which found that, among Web users ages twelve to seventeen, significantly more girls than boys blog (35 percent of girls as compared with 20 percent of boys) and create or work on their own Web pages (32 percent of girls as compared with 22 percent of boys). — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love, 718

Categorization

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