Study finds Spanish gender gap in Internet use and frequency - 0
Komentāri - 2363 Apmeklējumu skaits A new study reveals how the
digital gender gap in Spain is larger than the European average.
Presented in the journal Reis, the study investigated the use
and frequency of the Internet in Spain and 30 other European
countries. The findings indicate that Spanish men use the
Internet more frequently than Spanish women do. Compared with
the average of all 31 nations, Spanish men rank 17th and Spanish
women rank 19th. This puts Spain under the average in Europe for
information and communication technologies (ICT) use. With
respect to the level of gender equality in the digital world,
Spain fares even worse by ranking 20th. 'Spanish men and women
score lower than the European average on ICT use,' explains Juan
Martín Fernandez from the Complutense University of Madrid in
Spain and one of the authors of the study. 'For women, internet
use frequency is lower than that of men and the gender gap is
wider than the Europ