Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
The Rise of the Network Society
The Rise of the Network Society
An analysis of the international discourse about women in information technology
Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
A South African perspective of the international discourse about women in information technology
SAICSIT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
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This paper presents a comparative analysis of the effect that the new technologies has had on the social structure and on unequal access by gender in Southern European countries, particularly in Spain. I have used data from the Eurobarometer for the year 2003 for my analysis.The major conclusion is that in Southern European countries extensive gender inequality can be observed in access to the new information technologies. These inequalities are more pronounced in the group of women with low educational levels and those who are not integrated into the labour market. The gaps can partly be explained by the family-based culture that characterizes Southern European countries, where women have historically been confined to the private environment of the family, thus limiting their opportunity for integration into the labour market and to new technologies.