Gender analysis of information and communication technology in rural households of Hisar District
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2008
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CCSHAU
Abstract
Information and communication technology (ICT) is an umbrella term that includes
both traditional and modern information and communication technologies. For the present
study ICT refers to eight ICTs viz. television, radio, news paper, magazine, telephone,
mobile, computer and internet. The study “Gender analysis of information and
communication technology in rural households of Hisar District” conducted on a sample of
100 male and 100 female respondents respectively drawn from 4 villages of Hisar district
revealed that among male respondents television was possessed by cent per cent (Rank-I),
followed by mobile (63.00%, Rank-II), newspaper (61.00%, Rank-III), telephone (59.00%,
Rank-IV), radio (55.00%, Rank-V), magazine (37.00%, Rank-VI) and computer (18.00%,
Rank-VII) while none possessed internet at home (Rank-VIII). In case of female
respondents, television was possessed by cent per cent (Rank-I), followed by radio (65.00%,
Rank-II), mobile (57.00%, Rank-III), newspaper (50.00%, Rank-IV) and telephone (45.00%,
Rank-V) followed by magazine (34.00%, Rank-VI) and computer (13.00%, Rank-VII) while
none possessed internet at home (Rank-VIII).
Gender analysis for access to ICTs revealed that cent per cent male respondents had
access to television (100.00%, Rank-I) followed by mobile (63.00%, Rank-II) and
newspaper (61.00%, Rank-III), telephone (59.00%, Rank-IV), radio (55.00%, Rank-V),
magazine (37.00%, Rank-VI) while both computer (Rank-VII) and internet (Rank-VII) was
accessed by 24.00 per cent, respectively. Regarding females all had access to television
(Rank-I) followed by radio (65.00%, Rank-II), mobile (57.00%, Rank-III), telephone
(45.00%, Rank-IV), magazine (34.00%, Rank-V) and newspaper (26.00%, Rank-VI), while
15.00 per cent and 13.00 per cent of female respondents had access to internet (Rank-VII)
and computer (Rank-VIII) respectively. Both male and female respondents accessed internet
outside home.
Gender analysis of overall access and use of ICTs showed significant association of
gender with both access to and use of ICTs when tested through χ2 at 5 per cent level of
significance. Regarding overall control of ICTs, males had higher control on all the
ICTs.Association of socio-economic variables of male and female respondents for those who
possessed ICTs, with access, control and use of eight individual ICTs revealed that for access
there was significant association of age, size of family and land holding in case of news
paper and caste and size of family for mobile. Association for control on ICTs revealed that
there was significant association of age and occupation on control of news paper where as
for magazine factors effecting control was occupation. Association with use of ICTs showed
that there was significant association of education, caste and scientific temper on use of
television while for telephone and mobile factors affecting were education, scientific temper
and land holding, respectively.
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Mass media, Economics, Television, Newspapers, Biological phenomena, Economic systems, Land resources, Communication technology, Marketing, Developmental stages