I am doing some research on blogging, and I would like some recent
statistics about the percentage of bloggers that are female.

57% are male
making 43% female


Very detailed statistics:
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_blogging_data.pdf

Summerized statistics:
http://www.mslpr.com/blogworks/archives/2005/04/blogging_statis.html

Original report:
http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=144

great, exactly what I was looking for.  I don't quite get how this
works though.  If my question gets answered in comments, do I withdraw
the question?  What's the protocol?

I found the answer to my second question, thanks. 


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