According to this article in Politiken (referring to an UK study which I havent been able to track down), women are better at organising their mail (deleting it in their inbox) and are more happy about using email as a form of communication than their male counterparts which would rather use the phone (59%). I'm not quite sure what this says about communication patterns, brain use and other topics which frequently pop up in gender conversations. I'd like to see some comparisons on how much time you spend sorting out practical details via mail compared to sorting them out on the phone. And how much "chat-mail" which is not work-related do men send compared to women? How many "look at this URL with pictures of women exploiting men, ha ha" mails do men send compared to women? Now see stats on that would be really interesting!

The survey was made by Xerox and actually builds on interviews with 508 managers. From the scientific point of validity, I wonder how many of these are actually women?

The most interesting thing about the Politiken article is that they have a little onsite survey asking people how many mails they have in their inbox. Today, the stats look like this (I hope Politiken is not going to sue me for quoting this):
0 12%
1 - 50 36%
51 - 100 11%
101 - 250 10%
251 - 500 9%
501 - 1.000 7%
More than 1.001 14%
(3170 people had done the poll at the time of writing)

I find the fact that 14% have more than 1001 mails in their inbox comforting.
I've started to feel like a very disorganised woman - I read all my mails but I havent found the time to sort them since august, so I've currently reached a peek of 1626 mails in the inbox. How many mails do you have in yours? Do you feel disorganised?

# posted by Lisbeth at: 17:26