Dear feminism...sometimes you suck when I'm looking for peer blogs.

My Beat Blog is not where I would like it to be. There is so much good information out there that I can use for my topic but my problem is synthesizing it in a timely fashion. I'm having trouble formulating and organizing my post ideas. Each post seems way too complex to manage. Also, my search for peer bloggers has not been fruitful. Ideally, I would like to find business bloggers who are writing about gender inequities in business but it seems that the blogs I find specific to women focus on career advice or coaching. Another blog I found was (annoyingly) geared toward career fashion advice for female MBAs! This is all from a Technorati search.

I suppose there is an audience for these kinds of blogs (seems like the 'professional' version of cosmo magazine) but these blogs don't seem to discuss and address the systemic issues that prevent gender parity in executive leadership or the persistant gender pay gap (all of which have been unconstructively blamed on women's choices). I also want to find blogs about the kinds of business cultures that weaken opportunities for inclusion of all female employees (irrespective of race, class, age, or sexual orientation).

The blogs that I did find on systemic issues tended to be attached to legal organizations or women's organizations. These blogs had very few comments and few regular updates. The topics were mostly news items and based on policy updates or proposals. I didn't get the impression that interacting with these blogs would generate more traffic to my blog. Also, so many feminist blogs tend to look at the  harmful impact of media and domestic violence. This is all important stuff, but where are the business blogs? There are tons of articles about women in business and women lacking rank or positions. There is tons of research about the ways women are treated differently in professional settings...but it seems no one is collecting and discussing that information in one place.

It occurred to me that there could also be a generational/technology gap. Women who have experienced the kind of systemic discrimination I want to look at are older and may not be fully integrated into the blogosphere. I would argue that the most active feminist bloggers are under 40 and do not have the years of professional experience to discuss these business issues in depth. Also, I wonder if women who are tech savvy and in the business world are worried about "outing" themselves if they bring up these issues in the public blogosphere. There is a lot to risk when you stand up and say, "hey, actually you guys are not really helping us out."

For now, I'm following a few of the career coaching blogs and I found one or two pro-women blogs that  are written by men. I would like to find more of these male-written blogs because I see a lot of these system issues arising out of the challenge for one dominant group (in this case men) to empathize/imagine what it is like to be in the less dominant group (women) and to instigate cultural changes accordingly. After all, it was men who gave women the vote, and men who allowed women to legally make decisions about their own bodies and open bank accounts on their own. Therefore, it will be men who create a more inclusive business culture and climate.

I would like to learn more about submitting posts as articles to aggregator sites. I've read a few "How to generate traffic" articles but all in all, I guess I'm looking for a quick fix and my peers.