And 22 percent of the respondents who use the Internet at home say that they buy or sell stock online. People have readily adopted the use of the Internet to communicate with their friends and family and to provide themselves with a broad-based source for information. The survey results indicate that there are, at present, different patterns of online use among men and women who access the net at home. While at least 90 percent of both men and women who access the Internet at home use it to send e-mail to family and friends, there are some notable divergences as well. Thirty-six percent of men who have access to the Internet at home use it to bank, compared to 22 percent of women who are home Internet users.
Men are also more likely to look up information about political candidates on the net.
Thirty-eight percent of the male respondents who are home Internet users report doing so compared to 24 percent of female home Internet users. In contrast women are more likely to use the Internet to look up medical and health information. The sample of telephone numbers was prepared by Genesys Sampling Systems of Ft. Washington, Pennsylvania, and was designed so that all residential telephones, including new and unlisted numbers, had a known chance of inclusion. The data were weighted to adjust for unequal probabilities of selection due to multiple telephone lines and multiple adults living in the household.