Madrid (EFE).- Women are the main victims of sexual crimes committed on the Internet, according to the report “Digital Gender Divide in Spain”, prepared by the National Observatory of Technology and Society (ONTSI), which calculates that women represent 70.3% of those affected by these crimes.
They are more aware of the harassment derived from cyber risks, and it is that eight out of ten believe that these situations are “quite or very widespread”, compared to six out of ten men who think so.
However, this has not stopped the increase in Internet use by women between the ages of 16 and 74, 92.8% of whom use it at least once a week, compared to 93% of men.
In fact, Spain is, along with Denmark, the European Union country closest to gender parity in regular Internet use.
The use that they make is more oriented to activities related to health, while they prefer it for recreational activities, such as video games.
On the other hand, the purchase of physical goods with electronic means is similar with 54.3% of women and 54% of men.
Lower level of education
Women have a slightly lower level of digital skills than men, but the greatest differences occur in STEM training (acronym in English for science, technology, engineering and mathematics), since only 17.8% of women likely to work have this type of education.
Specifically, 37.3% of women in Spain have less than basic digital skills, three points more than men.
The largest gap in university studies occurs in computer science degrees, where only 13.5% of graduates are women.
At work, Spanish ICT specialists are mostly men, since only 19.4% of specialists in digital technologies are women.
Internet trust
62.7% of women trust the internet quite a bit and 9.3% do so a lot, but they are more cautious in managing their online security.
For example, when physically meeting people they have met through the Internet, 43.2% of women request to exchange social network profiles first, compared to 37.9% of men who do so.