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Mobile broadband gender gap no closer to closing

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Mobile broadband gender gap no closer to closing

Posted by Guest Blogger 01 September 2011 Research |  Social media |  Women |  Women in business |  Women in IT Written by Julia Kukiewicz

The gender gap in the way that we use technology is no closer to closing, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.

The body found that, unsurprisingly, we’re generally more reliant on internet access than ever before: 77% of households have internet access and 66% of us (and a much higher proportion in younger age groups) have made purchases online.

Yet the gender gap stubbornly remains.

As you can see in the graph below, every year around 10% more men than women said that they’d accessed the internet using a mobile phone in the past three months.

The same pattern, higher usage in men by around 10%, recurs no matter the method of accessing the internet.

However, the ONS research only divides its results by age or gender so it’s impossible to tell whether one age group is skewing the results but previous research suggests that this might be the case.

In the over 65s age group, men are far more likely to access the internet in general. Older men also spend three times as much time as women online, increasing the chance that they’d answer ‘yes’ to the three months question.

The gender gap in how we use the internet seems just as stubborn.

Ofcom research from earlier in the year also found that women were less likely to go online ‘to relax’ (35% compared to 45% of men) or, a bit depressingly, ‘to keep up to date with news’ (31% compared to 42% of men).

This is a guest post from broadband deals comparison site, Choose, which helps users find the best and cheapest broadband.


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