Four years ago, women made up only three per cent of the U.S. population online. That number is now 40 per cent according to Georgia Tech University, which surveys users twice a year.
In spring 1998 GTU researchers found, for the first time, that more than half the Internet's newcomers were women.
America Online reports that now, more than half its clients are women.
Jupiter Communications, a research company, says that by 2002 women will make up more than half the United States' Internet users.
The trend is worldwide. According to Nua, a group that tracks Internet trends, almost two thirds of the people who used Internet search engine Alta Vista's Asian site in January, 1998 were women. In Russia, women constituted 85 per cent of April 1998's visitors to Russia's largest Internet publisher.
The Irish Internet Association reported that in the last 18 months, the percentage of women going online rose from 25 to 31 per cent.
Source:Georgia Tech University, Jupiter Communications, Nua and The Irish Internet Association, cited in PC World Today, December 2, 1998
