Phase Two: Engendering the Knowledge Society: Measuring Women's Participation

Phase One of the project (see below), Women in the Information Society, demonstrated that contrary to what might be expected, gender patterns in Internet use do not vary equally with Internet penetration. Women’s rates of Internet access and use will not automatically rise with national rates of Internet penetration. A range of socioeconomic and political factors affect and frame the gender divide, including social and cultural barriers to technology use; education and skill levels; employment and income trends; media and content; privacy and security and location/mode of access.