Gender and the Internet

The first thing I notices from most of the sources I looked at was the standard that the internet is mainly dominated by a male presence. However, in recent years that number has been dramatically decreasing.
The studies i read basically concluded that the things they expected to be present in more male dominated discussions were not able to be confirmed and would not apply to all studies anyway. The same thing goes for studies on female dominated discussions. Basically, it seems that the gender gap begins to break down over the internet. Men and women both act differently than they would in real life. The generally held assumptions on how different genders act towards others in conversation dissappear in the impersonality of the internet. I would speculate if this has as much to do with the impersonality of the internet as it does the direction our culture is taking us. Calling for women to be more masculine in the world and men to be more sensitive or effiminate towards others. This is strictly speculation and opinion but i think this could be playing a major role in how people communicate not just on the internet but in person too.