Comment goes women-only for the day

On Tuesday, to mark International Women's Day, we published on Comment is free, and on the comment pages in the Guardian, articles on a wide range of topics written only by women . That was the intention, at least. We have no female cartoonists, so the wonderful Steve Bell appeared as normal . All of the leaders were written – as they are on many days – by men. And we forgot to tell Michael Tomasky so he blogged as normal! But with these few exceptions, we went women-only for the day. Did you notice? Did it make any difference? Does the gender of comment writers matter?