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Area of Science:

  • Social Sciences
  • Information Science
  • Gender Studies

Background:

  • Online social media are powerful information resources with transformative societal potential.
  • The digital divide limits online access, and social media exhibits gender inequality, impacting employment.
  • Measuring global gender inequality in social media is challenging due to data limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate the Facebook Gender Divide (FGD) metric for assessing global gender inequality.
  • To explore the relationship between the FGD and indices of gender equality in education, health, and economic opportunity.
  • To investigate gender differences in social media network externalities and their impact on women.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized aggregated statistics from over 1.4 billion Facebook users across 217 countries.
  • Developed the Facebook Gender Divide (FGD) metric to quantify gender imbalance on the platform.
  • Correlated FGD values with established gender equality indices.

Main Results:

  • The FGD metric effectively reflects global gender inequality across education, health, and economic sectors.
  • Social media use demonstrates network externalities that provide added value for women.
  • Lower FGD values correlate with increased economic gender equality.

Conclusions:

  • Despite gender imbalances, online social networks can reduce barriers for women accessing information.
  • Social media platforms may contribute to narrowing the economic gender gap.
  • The FGD metric offers a scalable approach to understanding and addressing online gender disparities.