Are All American Women Making Progress Online? African-Americans and Latinas

Caroline Tolbert, Karen Mossberger, Bridgett King and Gena L. Miller
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Caroline Tolbert: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Karen Mossberger: Graduate Program in Public Administration, MC 278, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, 412 South Peoria Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607, (312) 413-8246, USA.
Bridgett King: Doctoral Student, Department of Political Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.
Gena L. Miller: Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Public Administration, ollege of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Information Technologies and International Development, 2008, vol. 4, issue 2, 61-88

Abstract: Although the gender gap online has narrowed in the United States, little research on technology access and use has examined the different experiences of women-particularly the interaction between gender, race/ethnicity, and poverty. Using the most recent comprehensive survey of technology use and access, the 2003 Current Population Survey, we find new evidence of diminishing gender disparities overall, differences between African-American women and Latinas in the factors that influence technology access and use, and some indications that minority women outpace their male peers online. However, substantial disadvantages for minority women remain, driven by inequalities in education and income. We find evidence that while there is virtually no gender gap in technology access between White men and women, there is a gender divide among minority populations, but women are not unilaterally disadvantaged. (c) 2008 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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