New Infographic breaks down Social Media Users by Gender

A new infographic from Information is Beautiful breaks down social media users by gender. As you can see, Pinterest is a fave among women, while Reddit is a must-read by men.

Here are other key findings.

1. Pinterest is far from the only social media site dominated by women. Just look at Twitter: Sixty-two percent of Twitter's users are female, and each month 40 million more women visit Twitter than men.

2. Same goes for Facebook, but less so. Fifty-eight percent of The Social Network's users are women.

3. Despite users spending very little time on the network, people are still using Google+ -- and over 50 percent of those people are male.

4. Despite its user base declining steadily since 2008, people are still using MySpace -- and over 50 percent of those people are female.

5. Men make up the majority of users on music-based social networking sites, such as last.fm and Spotify.

6. More women are on Instagram -- but barely. The breakdown is 53 percent women, 47 percent men. 

7. Only three social networking sites have gender parity: Scribd., orkut and foursquare.

Interesting stuff

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Study: Majority of Children's Books are still about White Males

Here is an interesting find on the Racebending Tumblr

In the most comprehensive study of children’s literature during a period of 100 years, researchers recently found that:

• 57% of children’s books published each year have male protagonists, versus 31% female.
• In popular children’s books featuring animated animals, 100% of them have male characters, but only 33% have female characters.
• The average number of books featuring male characters in the title of the book is 36.5% versus 17.5% for female characters.
• Of an estimated 5,000 children’s and YA books released in 2012, only 3.3% featured African-Americans; 2.1% featured Asian-Americans or Pacific Islanders; 1.5% featured Latinos; and only 0.6% featured Native Americans.

This needs to get better.