( Guest Blogger )
According to a survey conducted between March 2000 and September 2005, The Pew Charitable Trusts report today that a larger proportion of women are going online than men. Although numbers show that a slightly larger percentage of men (68%) are online than women (66%), the report reminds us that the female population in the U.S. is actually larger than that of the male.
Listed among the many interesting statistics in the report are:
- Younger women (86%) are more likely to go online than their male counterparts (80%). This trend is the opposite in older persons (65% v. 21%).
- Black women (60%) are more likely than black man (50%) to go online.
- Unmarried men (62%) tend to be online more than unmarried women (56%).
The report goes on to state that while men are motivated to go online by the experiences (e.g. online gaming; e-trading; music and movie downloading; smut surfing; and *cough* blogging) that the internet provides, women tend to use it to improve their social connections (e.g. e-mailing, online chatting, e-learning, and *sneeze* blogging).
