Gender
Notes:
- Overall, 29.3% of the users were female, 70.7% male The actual numbers are
6842 women and 16,506 men.
- Compared to the last survey (See: Third Survey),
women represent a 15% increase and men a 12% decrease (the last survey had a
"Rather not Say!" option).
- In the US, 32.5% of the users were female, 67.5% male. This represents a
strong shift in the increased acceptance and use of the Web by women. The US
continues to integrate female users into the Web user population faster than
Europe. The percent of US users though is still far from the 52% female
48% male composition of the entire US population (1995 Estimated US Census).
- There are still proportionately more males (89.5%) than females (10.5%) in
Europe. This proportion only changed 2% since the Third Survey.
By Location
Notes:
- For Weekend users, 24.8% of the respondents were female with 75.2% male. These
ratios more so reflect the traditional male dominated field of computer hobbyists.
By Access Time
Table of Data for All Categories
For more information or to submit comments:
send e-mail to www-survey@cc.gatech.edu.
GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280