• DOI:10.1016/J.WSIF.2011.07.001
Corpus ID: 146742985

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

@article{Hilbert2011DigitalGD,
  title={Digital Gender Divide or Technologically Empowered Women in Developing Countries? A Typical Case of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics},
  author={M. Hilbert},
  journal={Development Economics: Women},
  year={2011}
}

• M. Hilbert
• Published 2011
• Sociology
• Development Economics: Women

The discussion about women’s access to and use of digital Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in developing countries has been inconclusive so far. Some claim that women are rather technophobic and that men are much better users of digital tools, while others argue that women enthusiastically embrace digital communication. This article puts this question to an empirical test. We analyze data sets from 12 Latin American and 13 African countries from 2005-08. This is believed to be… Expand

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