The Internet Gender Gap Among College Students: Forgotten But Not Gone?

Gender Differences in the Usage and Attitudes toward the Internet among Student Teachers in a Public Malaysian University

“…Indeed, previous studies [20,29,30] indicated that there was a significant gender difference in the attitudes toward the Internet where males were more likely to have more positive feelings toward the technology than females. This study, however, did not lend any support to these results but instead; it offered some evidence that the gender gap in attitudes towards the Internet was diminishing.…”

“…Males are also found to spend more of their time on the Internet, indicating preferred locations for use, resource downloading, website creation and participation in discussion groups. A study by Madell and Muncer [15] and Sherman et al [16] supported the bias towards males. More males tend to use the World Wide Web; they are also more likely to have their own e-mail addresses and web pages and spend longer hours than females surfing the Internet.…”

“…More males tend to use the World Wide Web; they are also more likely to have their own e-mail addresses and web pages and spend longer hours than females surfing the Internet. Sherman et al [16] further reported that males, other than for e-mail, used the technology more often and had more positive attitudes than females. The bias is seen even though both girls and boys are equally comfortable and show positive feelings toward the Internet.…”

Testing measurement invariance and latent mean differences across gender groups in college students’ Internet-specific epistemic beliefs

“…Although the latest generation of learners has grown up in a technology-saturated environment, they still represent gender stereotyping perceptions across different computing applications (Selwyn, 2007). The gender stereotype that computers and the Internet are masculine technologies may result in the gender differences in students' self-efficacy and attitudes toward their utilisation of the Internet and the Internet-based learning (Jones et al, 2009;Selwyn, 2007;Sherman et al, 2000), therefore exploring the gender differences in Internet-based learning is important for educators to encourage students to participate in such learning (Chuang et al, 2008;Huang et al, 2013).…”

“…In addition to the gendered issue of computer use, gender differences in use of, and attitudes toward, the Internet have also been broadly explored (Chou, Wu, & Chen, 2011;Jones et al, 2009;Sherman et al, 2000), however there are still debates and conflicting findings on the issue of gender differences in Internet use. A survey on the use of the Internet has shown that there is no gender difference in Internet access; females use the Internet as frequently as males (Wasserman & Richmond-Abbott, 2005).…”