Digital Gender Divide or Technologically Empowered Women in Developing Countries? A Typical Case of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

By Martin Hilbert. 2011

530 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Media Technology

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In Communication

1. A. V. van Deursen
2. J. V. van Dijk
3. Ellen J. Helsper

In Gender Studies

1. J. V. van Dijk
2. A. V. van Deursen

In Media Technology

1. A. V. van Deursen
2. J. V. van Dijk
3. Ellen J. Helsper

Citations in the corpus

• The first-level digital divide shifts from inequalities in physical access to inequalities in material access (2018, background): “Furthermore, while it has been argued that women are at a natural disadvantage because they purportedly lack technological skills and are more technophobic, there is also the argument that the technology itself does not meet women’s needs (Hilbert, 2011).”