Daughters, devices and doorkeeping: how gender and class shape adolescent mobile phone access in Mumbai, India

Bhallamudi, Isha

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2022.2056499

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“…According to Devdas (2022), mobile phones are a source of contamination for female subjectivity in Tamil Nadu's patriarchal culture. This was corroborated by Bhallamudi (2022), who discovered that girls resorted to strategies like borrowing and sharing a common household phone, whereas male friends' brothers had easy access to phones. This is due to the belief that phones may harm girls, which has resulted in restrictions due to concerns about romantic behavior or outside influences.…”

Section: Status Of Ownership and Mobile Phone Usage In Indiamentioning

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Mobile Phone Usage Pattern of Women of Santal Tribe in West Bengal, India

Shaw

2024

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The phenomenal rise of mobile phones in the country can be ascribed to the construction of a wide network and diverse mobile phone services available to users from all walks of life. The greatest success of the mobile phone revolution can be explained by its increasing density and remotest reach where no roads exist or people struggle for basic healthcare facilities. It has become a ubiquitous part of life. This commonplace instrument has become an important communication tool in the modern world. With 52,963 residents, West Bengal makes up 5.8% of the state’s total population and 5.01% of all tribal people in the country. Santal, which shares common states of habitation with West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, and Tripura, is the third most populous tribe after Bhil and Gond. The usage patterns of women of Santal tribe in West Bengal, India, served as the basis for this study. The Singur block in West Bengal’s Hooghlydistrict served as the study’s location. Ten Santal tribal women in the age range of 18 to 38 were chosen in total. We conducted in-depth interviews with every participant. It was discovered that women of all ages owned mobile phones, either from self-affordance purchases or inheritance from male family members. They use their phones for various reasons, such as making calls and chatting on social media platforms like WhatsApp, but mostly for their own or their children’s educational requirements

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Section: Status Of Ownership and Mobile Phone Usage In Indiamentioning

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Mobile Phone Usage Pattern of Women of Santal Tribe in West Bengal, India

Shaw

2024

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“…Using mobile phones can reduce the likelihood of families falling into poverty in Ghana (Abor et al, 2018;Billari et al, 2020;Lee et al, 2021;Ureta, 2008). The expansion of mobile phone coverage reduces extreme poverty while increasing household consumption in rural Peru (Asongu et al, 2023;Asongu, 2015;Bahia et al, 2023;Bhallamudi, 2022;Khan et al, 2022;Odhiambo, 2022;Rajkhowa & Qaim, 2022;Wei & Mukherjee, 2023). Asongu and Nwachukwu (2018) investigate the correlation between mobile banking and inclusive development (quality of growth, inequality, and poverty) in 93 nations.…”

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Can Fintech Curb Income Inequality in China?

Liu,

Hao,

et al. 2023

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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The effect of FinTech on income inequality in China and the characteristics of the existing thresholds are examined in this study based on China provincial panel data from 2011 to 2020 by combining dynamic panel differential GMM with panel threshold models. As revealed by this study, (1) FinTech can significantly curb income inequality. (2) FinTech can mitigate income inequality in all regions, and the degree of mitigation is more significant in the central and western regions of China. (3) The improvement of FinTech development can reduce income inequality in all quantiles. The regions with high-income inequality and low-income inequality are compared. The comparison results reveal that FinTech can reduce income inequality to a greater extent in regions with lowincome inequality. (4) FinTech can restrain income inequality under different threshold variables, and the restraining effect of economic growth is the most significant. The policy significance of this study is to fully exploit the empowerment and income-generating role played by FinTech, build a more inclusive financial system, create a good financial environment, cultivate residents’ financial knowledge level, enhance the ability of low-income groups to obtain income from financial services and reduce income inequality, to fulfill the development goal of common prosperity.

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Daughters, devices and doorkeeping: how gender and class shape adolescent mobile phone access in Mumbai, India

Cited by 2 publications

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Mobile Phone Usage Pattern of Women of Santal Tribe in West Bengal, India

Mobile Phone Usage Pattern of Women of Santal Tribe in West Bengal, India

Can Fintech Curb Income Inequality in China?

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