Short Communication
Year: 2020 | Month: November | Volume: 7 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 588-595
Gender Gaps in Mobile Penetration in India
Dr. Susanta Mondal
Assistant Professor in Economics, Bolpur College, Bolpur, India
ABSTRACT
India has now emerged as the second largest mobile phone market in the world. However there is a wide variation in mobile phone penetration between men and women across the different states of India, bringing in questions of socio-economic disparities and the role of technology diffusion in bringing the convergence of growth process. A set of factors like education, income, social norms, gender continue to constraint mobile phone ownership. These factors are inadvertently widening the digital divide and the benefits of increased mobile penetration are failing to reach to an important segment of the society, leaving them further behind. In this study an attempt has been made to point out the gender differences in mobile phone penetration in India and tried to find out the crucial barriers that are responsible for the present scenario.
Keywords: Mobile Penetration, Gender Gap, Barriers to Mobile Ownership.
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