Gender Inequality and the Internet

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This paper explains that that women are less frequent users of the Internet and new related technologies as compared to men, which creates a wide gender gap, but that gap is diminishing. The author points out that women are victims of Internet pornography, since hundreds of sites reveal them in degrading fashion, thereby making gender inequality a more intense and pervasive issue. The paper relates that the under-representation of women in professional fields such as science, mathematics, and computing plays an important role in the existing gender inequality in the cyberspace.

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"Amazingly, the same trend exists even after eight highly progressive years in which women have mostly been able to overcome or minimize the gender gap in many areas. While more women access Internet today than they used to in mid-1990s, their access points are still the same and due to this, men are heavier and more intense users. A recent report by US Department of Commerce, Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide states that, ?Both sexes use the Internet more at home than elsewhere. Males generally access the Internet by about three percentage points more, regardless of location, and equal 34.3% in total access.?"

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