Earphones Are Not for Women: Gendered ICT Use Among Youths in Ethiopia and Malawi
Earphones Are Not for Women: Gendered ICT Use Among Youths in Ethiopia and Malawi
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耳机不适合女性：埃塞俄比亚和马拉维青少年信息通信技术使用的性别差异
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2011
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M. Geldof
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M. Geldof
新的信息和通信技术正在改变世界各地个人和社区的生活。妇女在获取和使用这些新的信息和通信技术方面面临的挑战比男子更多，因此，在非洲尤其如此。本文从埃塞俄比亚和马拉维的低识字率青年的角度，探讨了性别和信息和通信技术之间的复杂关系，基于更广泛的调查信息和通信技术在他们的生活中的作用。报告首先讨论了妇女在获得和使用信息和通信技术方面遇到的制约因素，如家庭责任、时间、流动性和社会文化规范。随后，文章探讨了这些制约因素造成的性别差距，在知识方面，使用和所有权的信息通信技术，以及男性和女性使用信息通信技术的方式的差异。在这样做的时候，文章认为，在日常生活中的性别化形状的性别化的信息和通信技术的使用，因此，性别数字鸿沟从根本上是社会上构建了一个复杂的网络相互关联的因素，很难梳理出哪个因素是负责什么效果。
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) are changing the lives of individuals and communities around the world. Women are facing more challenges in accessing and using, and therefore, in benefiting from these new ICTs than men are, particularly in Africa. This article examines the complex relationship between gender and ICTs from the perspective of low-literate youth in Ethiopia and Malawi, based on a wider inquiry into the role of ICTs in their lives. It first discusses the constraints that women experience in accessing and using ICTs, such as domestic responsibilities, time, mobility, and sociocultural norms. Subsequently, the article explores the gender disparity resulting from these constraints in terms of knowledge about, use of, and ownership of ICTs, as well as differences in the way men and women use ICTs. In doing so, the article argues that gendering in daily life shapes the gendering of ICT use, and therefore, that the gender digital divide is fundamentally socially constructed by a complex web of interrelated factors, making it difficult to tease out which factor is responsible for what effect.