Is there a gender gap in internet usage?

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OBJECTIVE: This article examines whether there are differences in men's and women's use of the Internet and whether any such gender gaps have changed in recent years. METHODS: We use data from several surveys during the period 1997 to 2001 to show trends in Internet usage and to estimate regression models of Internet usage that control for individuals' socioeconomic characteristics. RESULTS: Women were significantly less likely than men to use the Internet at all in the mid-1990s, but this gender gap in being online disappeared by 2000. However, once online, women remain less frequent and less intense users of the Internet. CONCLUSIONS: There is little reason for concern about sex inequalities in Internet access and usage now, but gender differences in frequency and intensity of Internet usage remain.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance ; No. 495

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Information and Internet Services; Computer Software ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: Internet ; gender ; race ; Internet ; Medienverhalten ; Geschlecht ; Statistischer Test ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ono, Hiroshi ; Zavodny, Madeline
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/56093
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET