Citation

Potnis D. Inf. Dev. 2016; 32(5): 1332-1342.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0266666915605163

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Abstract

In India, men own around 70% of mobile phones, creating a gender digital divide for the most widely owned information and communication technology (ICT) in the world. This study investigates the factors responsible for the inability of 245 female slum-dwellers in India earning less than $2 a day to own a mobile phone. Open, axial and selective coding of survey responses shows that socio-cultural, economic, demographic, psychological, communication-related, and health related inequalities in the lives of the respondents create eight economic barriers precluding respondents from owning some of the least expensive mobile phones worth $15 or so on installments of $1 a month.

Language: en