The New York Times, adhering to it's you're-a-victim template, complains that female bloggers aren't doing as well as their male counterparts:

A study conducted by BlogHer and Compass Partners last year found that 36 million women participate in the blogosphere each week, and 15 million of them have their own blogs.... Yet, when Techcult, a technology Web site, recently listed its top 100 Web celebrities, only 11 of them were women. Last year, Forbes.com ran a similar list, naming 3 women on its list of 25.

In the title, the Times invokes the term "glass ceiling", which the unerring Wikipedia defines thusly (bold added):

The term glass ceiling refers to situations where the advancement of a qualified person within the hierarchy of an organization is stopped at a lower level because of some form of discrimination, most commonly sexism or racism...

So by stating there is a "glass ceiling", the Times is, in fact, asserting that they believe that many women who are qualified to be among the top 100 or 25 bloggers (no doubt, 39 and 12 of them respectively) are being unfairly passed over, to the benefit of a number of less-qualified male bloggers, because of sexism.

This is, in my view, an extremely precise measure of how far the Times will go to create a new class of victims.

I can't imagine a more egalitarian, democratic institution than blogging. (Can you?) On the internet, no-one knows how you look, your sex, or your age, your skin color national origin unless you choose to divulge it. If you can access a computer, you can create a blog for no additional charge. At the end of the day, unless you're selling sex (which DailyKos and Instapundit are certainly not) what matters most is the quality of your product.

Why aren't more women in the top 100, or 25? Do women have less net access than men? Are they being denied the (exceedingly low) level of education required to write at a level deemed acceptable on the 'net? Are readers -- both male and female -- avoiding otherwise-wonderful blogs when they see a woman's name on it? (I admit to having the opposite tendency, actually.) Or do men have more time available than women? Or is simply that there are more men who happen to have whatever skill set is demanded to be a top blogger?

(Don't ask me, I'm male, and have an approximate readership of 5! :-))