Christine said something like, "When you visit a website do you ever think about what you allowed to do on the site?" She points to how gender does it translate gender representation?
I think this a good question I haven't thought about before. How do women interact in person? What are those customs that we use? Are those represented in online communication models?
I dream up a mom/woman specific operating system from time to time and it often is framed in my social experience as a woman/mom.
What I dream...
You organize things in rooms. You assign a room to each person in your family. Mom's room, daughter's room, the cat's litter box, a living room, dining room, and a patio. Each of those places represented by the OS have objects that we often use - a fridge for keeping recipies, shopping lists; a television where we keep tags of items we want to return to later for entertainment purposes; a closet to bury my mall wishlist.
Let me brainstorm what an online activist version of this dream may be...