On 30/08/2014, Mark <delir...@hackish.org> wrote: > On 8/28/14, 2:55 PM, Jane Darnell wrote: >> 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 -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
