females spark green by email

The findings regarding men and women’s use of the internet were useful in possibly understanding why the Green movement has taken off so much in the recent decade. The study says that women have been using the internet and email to build their relationships, which leads me to believe that they would also have the time to further causes they were confident about. ”Gender Differences in British Blogging” reports that there are more women bloggers than men, but that men’s ”verteran” blogs have been proven more influential. Perhaps the build-up of the Green movement had similar beginnings of other historical events in the sense that they were sparked by women, but needed men to put them into action. For instance, when women first began writing literature they needed a man in order to get their stories published. This is another sense where men have discovered how a woman’s cause can help their own as well, and have begun to support it. Men in big business recognized how Green could benefit the economy by providing jobs, and spread the word as well. Even if women could not totally help Green make the jump into mainstream media, I believe these articles are evidence that they were possibly the spark, and men helped to take it to the next level.

-Emily