An artcle in the lates issue of JOLT, "Making Online Collaboration Work by Transcending Gender Stereotypes: A Study of Two Mixed Gender Online Groups" http://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no4/ritke-jones_1210.pdf reported that postings of two online groups were coded and the researchers found:
"A small online group of mixed genders may be a more fertile environment for women and men to embrace parts of themselves that they cannot in a physical space. In order for a collaborative group to succeed, all group members must take initiative and assert their voices, characteristics attributable to the masculine, while simultaneously negotiating and yielding on issues and nurturing and supporting their group mates, characteristics attributable to the feminine."
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