Digital Gender Gap Pattern in Indonesia

Anna Puji Lestaria,Sunarto Sunarto,Hadiyanto Hadiyanto,Budi Warsito,Maryono Maryono

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20187311007

Abstract

The development of Communication Technology through the Internet brings a digital gap for women, especially for Baby Boom generation, women who was born in 1946-1964. This study aim to describe the digital gap in family communication. The theory used in this research is Gender Structuration Theory and Liberal Feminist Theory. This research is a descriptive qualitative research with critical phenomenology design. The results suggest that women on Baby Boom generation still marginalized from access to information over the internet due to unequal power on the use of communication technology between female and male family members. That have been happened because of the absence of digital gender awareness of the Y generation (born between 1977 - 1997) to provide internet access and facilities for women on Baby Boom generation who are their mothers. Y Generation prefer to provide internet access and facilities for his father, the Baby Boom man. The provision of means of communication (smart phone) and internet access for baby boom generation is preferred for men. This was due to patriarchal thinking in the pattern of family relationships that assume men have more rights to master communication technology than women.

Highlights

The number of internet users continues to increase every year as the expansion of the internet reaches in every region in Indonesia
Based on APJII (Asosiasi Penyelenggara Jasa Internet Indonesia) data, as published on antarajateng.com, the population of the growing community increase the number of Internet users every time
The Baby Boom generation woman who became the informant in this study stated that as a woman, she lacks access to information via the internet

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Introduction

The number of internet users continues to increase every year as the expansion of the internet reaches in every region in Indonesia. Based on APJII (Asosiasi Penyelenggara Jasa Internet Indonesia) data, as published on antarajateng.com, the population of the growing community increase the number of Internet users every time. APJII noted, to date from the total population of the community in Indonesia, the composition of Internet users reached 38 percent. About 70 percent are internet users via smart phones, while the rest through broadband. We see the percentage of Internet users are predicted in the future the number will continue to increase. Rapid technological developments and the proliferation of smart phones in Indonesia are not enough to encourage women to access the internet and empower women to use technology to access information

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