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Web Study Reflects Gender Gap
12/29/2005 | 
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Red Herring, Industries
'“American men consume more news, sports, stock data, and porn on the web, while women focus more on communicating, directions, health, and religion, according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
The report, published Wednesday by the Washington-based research group, also showed that women in the United States still lag behind men in overall Internet usage, but black women and women under 30 tend to use the Internet far more than their male peers.
A slightly higher percentage of men (68 percent) use the Internet than women (66 percent), but because there are more women in the U.S. than men, the number of women on the web is slightly larger than the number of men, the study said.
“If there is an overall pattern of differences here, it is that men value the Internet for the breadth of experiences it offers, and women value it for the human connections,” said Deborah Fallows, senior research fellow at the Pew Internet Project, who authored the new report, How Women and Men Use the Internet.”
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