The research indicates that women are more aware of cyber risk and that they are also the main victims
The women Are the main victims of sexual crimes that are committed on the internet, according to the report “Digital gender gap in Spain”, prepared by the National Observatory of Technology and Society (ONTSI), which calculates that women represent 70.3% of those affected for these crimes.
They are more aware of harassment derived from cyber risksand it is that eight out of ten believe that these situations are “quite or very widespread”, compared to six out of ten men who think so.
However, this has not slowed the increase in internet use that women between the ages of 16 and 74 do, 92.8% of whom use it at least once a week, compared to 93% of men. In fact, Spain is, together with Denmark, the country of the European Union closest to gender parity in regular use from Internet.
The use that they make is more oriented to activities related to health, while they prefer it for recreational activities, such as video games. On the other hand, the purchase of physical goods with electronic means is similar with 54.3% of women and 54% of men.
Lower level of education
Women have a slightly lower level of digital skills than men, but the greatest differences occur in STEM training (acronym in English for science, technology, engineering and mathematics), since only 17.8% of women likely to work have this type of education. Specifically, 37.3% of women in Spain have less than basic digital skillsthree points more than men.
The largest gap in university studies occurs in computer science degrees, where only 13.5% of graduates are women. At work, Spanish ICT specialists are mostly men, since only 19.4% of specialists in digital technologies are women.
Internet trust
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62.7% of women trust the Internet a lot and 9.3% do it a lot, but they are more cautious in managing their online security.
For example, when physically staying with people they have met through the internet, 43.2% of women request to exchange social media profiles firstcompared to 37.9% of men who do so.