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| Title: | | Is there a gender gap in internet usage?  |
| Authors: | | Ono, Hiroshi Zavodny, Madeline |
| Issue Date: | | 2002 |
| Series/Report no.: | | SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 495 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | Internet gender race |
| JEL: | | J15 J16 L86 O33 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, EFI - The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics
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