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The Second Digital Divide and Young Women
13/10/2009
Author : European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed - Spain)
By Cecilia Castaño
 
The sustained increase in the number of users of computers and Internet connections seems to indicate that the first digital divide can be resolved in the future. The second digital divide, related to the skills necessary to obtain all the benefits of access (digital literacy), affects women more than men. This is a complex challenge to resolve in that efficient policies aimed at overcoming the inequality between men and women in access to and use of Internet is slowing down due to the absence of rigorous data and research.

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This is part of the Quaderns de la Mediterrània 11

Quaderns de la Mediterrània forms part of the series of projects of the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) that contribute to intercultural dialogue. This journal is the result of the will to contribute to research and study on the Mediterranean. Edited by the anthropologist Maria-Àngels Roque, the publication seeks to publicise the reality of the Mediterranean in current events such as migration, shifting values and the sociological, economic and political processes of the peoples that inhabit it and to be a forum of debate on the intercultural future of our societies. In each issue, Quaderns de la Mediterrània dedicates a central dossier to a key subject, as well as including articles on current events, a miscellany on cultural, anthropological and sociological aspects and a book review section.

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