Abstract
This paper quantifies and analyses the issue gender digital divide which has been prominent in discussions of the information society. The phenomena digital divide can in brief be defined as inequality of Internet access. But access alone does not solve anything; the actual problem about digital divide is very complex. While it would be very interesting to explore the relationship between the digital divide and gender identity among the multiple faces of digital divide based on age, job, nation, education etc. Researchers were quick to observe that women tend to be latecomers to the digital age. As a consequence, the new technology was popularly portrayed as a male domain.
Highlights
As digital technologies have increased in prevalence and importance, a digital divide has emerged along the lines of previously existing social divides
The information about different schemes related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) were collected from Kerala Women’s Commission, publications of various agencies like the Centre for Development Studies(CDS, Research works, studies conducted by institutions in other states, various journals, books and publications
Questionnaire used for survey includes various types of questions to know the dimensions of gender digital divide
Summary
As digital technologies have increased in prevalence and importance, a digital divide has emerged along the lines of previously existing social divides In other words, these new technologies have benefited those who already had access to other resources at greater rates than people who had fewer resources (de Haan, 2004; van Dijk, 2006). These new technologies have benefited those who already had access to other resources at greater rates than people who had fewer resources (de Haan, 2004; van Dijk, 2006) This divide reproduced the already extant inequalities between rich and poor, urban and rural, male and female (e.g., Hoffman & Novak, 1998; Howard, Rainie, & Jones, 2001; Katz & Aspden, 1997; LaRose, Gregg, Strover, Straubhaar, Carpenter, 2007). Research has detailed a variety of ways in which women lag men in the ownership of technology and the development of
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