@article{ref1,
title="Inequalities creating economic barriers to owning mobile phones in India: factors responsible for the gender digital divide",
journal="Information development",
year="2016",
author="Potnis, Devendra",
volume="32",
number="5",
pages="1332-1342",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0266-6669",
doi="10.1177/0266666915605163",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266666915605163"
}