Publicación: Evolution of the internet gender gaps in Spain and effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
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2022
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There is a widely accepted belief in new technologies that the digital divide in using a service will disappear as the service reaches an advanced level of maturity. The work presented here shows that this idea is debatable. Data from Spain, a country where daily internet users are 75.9 percent of the population, prove that the gender gap still exists. The paper explores if this gap can be entirely explained by the socioeconomic differences between men and women. We build a micro panel model and incorporate a set of socioeconomic variables (age, education, income, employment status, digital skills, and resident population) that allow us to isolate the effects of gender on the decision to become a daily Internet user. The results conclude that the Internet gap is a phenomenon with a specific gender component. Other things being equal a woman negatively affects the probability of using the Internet. Applying a similar model to 15 Internet services, we obtain that gender is always significant to explain the likelihood of being a user of each service. However, in some services (7 out of 15), the effect is favorable to women, and for other services (8), the gender effect favors men. The work concludes by analyzing the impact of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on the use of Internet services, paying particular attention to its possible implications for the gender gap.
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The registered version of this article, first published in “Telecommunications Policy, Volume 46, Issue 8", is available online at the publisher's website: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102371
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Telecommunications Policy, Volume 46, Issue 8", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102371
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internet penetration, gender gap, digital divide, internet services, panel data, Covid-19
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Teresa Garín-Muñoz, Teodosio Pérez-Amaral, Ángel Valarezo, Evolution of the internet gender gaps in Spain and effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Telecommunications Policy, Volume 46, Issue 8, 2022, 102371, ISSN 0308-5961, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102371
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Análisis Económico