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An Evolving Gender Digital Divide?

This Issue Brief takes a fresh look at the factors surrounding what has appeared to be a closing of the gender divide among those using the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs). Empirical evidence based primarily on the Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) is used to identify key dimensions of 'access' whose measurement can help to reveal some detailed emerging differences in the ways choices are made in practice about whether or how to use the Internet.