The first speaker this morning said that she would like to see women at the head of large technology companies. The President and CEO of Hewlett Packard, one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley, is a woman, Carly Fiorina. Since December 1999, according to Reuters, there have been more US women online than US men online. The Future Foundation predicts that in the UK, the number of women online will overtake the number of men online in 2001. This should not be a surprise.
Women generally use communications technologies more than men do.
Women use the telephone about twice as much as men do. Moyal reported in Telegeography '92 that this appears to be the case whichever country and decade you look at. Women make more telephone calls, women's calls last longer, and women's calls are more likely to be for social communication. There are of course men with a female style, and women with a male style, but these are the general tendencies. And it's not just the telephone.