On 30/08/2014, Mark delirium@hackish.org wrote:

On 8/28/14, 2:55 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:

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You can start by asking around in your own circle of aquaintance, and I'll bet that such research will make you quickly realize that hard stats will be very hard to discover, since in my circle, most of the women I know are married and though their household contains a desktop, the desktop is owned and operated by their husband, not them.

This kind of analysis varies quite widely by country and community, so I would be wary of making wide generalizations. You say that "most of the women I know are married", but your experience would be unusual here (Denmark), because the hard statistics show that most adult women (and men) in the country are not married. Clearly other countries' statistics (and statistics for demographic subsets of the same) will show other numbers.

Best, Mark

I know widowers, unmarried people and same-sex married couples and almost no heterosexual married couples; hetero marriage seems a lot less popular these days. All the women I know either have their own machine or are uninterested in accessing the internet.

I honestly cannot think of any women in my circle of friends and acquaintances that rely on a husband or partner to access the internet, it is something I would find truly weird and would worry that the husband was being over-controlling. Though I have one friend that relies on free public internet for his access for cost reasons.

I have a relative stuck long term in a London hospital where they charge her 7 quid a day for internet access, which she cannot afford so she relies on visitors to do stuff on the internet and will spend her days reading books instead; I find that particularly shocking and I have never heard of Wikimedia being a champion for the right to free internet in hospitals - in the 1st world, that should be a lot easier to negotiate than the internet zero stuff in the developing world.

Fae