On 8/28/14, 2:55 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
You can start by asking around in your own circle
of aquaintance, and I'll
bet that such research will make you quickly realize that hard stats will
be very hard to discover, since in my circle, most of the women I know are
married and though their household contains a desktop, the desktop is
owned
and operated by their husband, not them.
This kind of analysis varies quite widely by country and community, so I
would be wary of making wide generalizations. You say that "most of the
women I know are married", but your experience would be unusual here
(Denmark), because the hard statistics show that most adult women (and
men) in the country are not married. Clearly other countries' statistics
(and statistics for demographic subsets of the same) will show other
numbers.
Best,
Mark
I know widowers, unmarried people and same-sex married couples and
almost no heterosexual married couples; hetero marriage seems a lot
less popular these days. All the women I know either have their own
machine or are uninterested in accessing the internet.
I honestly cannot think of any women in my circle of friends and
acquaintances that rely on a husband or partner to access the
internet, it is something I would find truly weird and would worry
that the husband was being over-controlling. Though I have one friend
that relies on free public internet for his access for cost reasons.
I have a relative stuck long term in a London hospital where they
charge her 7 quid a day for internet access, which she cannot afford
so she relies on visitors to do stuff on the internet and will spend
her days reading books instead; I find that particularly shocking and
I have never heard of Wikimedia being a champion for the right to free
internet in hospitals - in the 1st world, that should be a lot easier
to negotiate than the internet zero stuff in the developing world.
Fae
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