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Article: Digital divide now has two spans; A GAO report says women and rural Americans have bridged the gap for narrowband access but that broadband is a chasm.(Industry Trend or Event)(Polling Data)
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- February 23, 2001
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Women and rural Americans have bridged the digital divide in narrowband Internet access, but a chasm remains in broadband access, especially when it comes to cost and geography, according to a General Accounting Office report released Thursday.
The study, based on a survey of Internet users, found that women have reached parity with men in Internet usage based on percentage of the population, a far cry from the nearly 2-to-1 male-to-female ratio found in a 1998 Georgia Tech study cited in the report.
The GAO study also found that while geography was not a factor in disparities among those using narrowband Internet access, rural Americans were much less ...