Gender Parity Has Been the Norm In Internet Usage
Today, men and women are equally likely to be internet users, a trend that has not wavered throughout the 15 years these surveys have been conducted. However, the earliest Pew Research surveys found that men were more likely than women to be internet users. For instance, a 1995 survey found 9% of men and 4% of women had used a “modem to connect to any computer bulletin boards, information services such as Compuserve or Prodigy.”
By 2000, when Pew Research began tracking internet use more consistently, 54% of men were internet users, compared with half of women. This modest gap continued, gradually shrinking until 2008 when a statistically indistinguishable 74% of men and 73% of women identified as internet users. Today, 85% of men and 84% of women report being internet users.
among all american adults the 9 who use the internet by gender  | 100  | 75  | 50  | 25  | 2000  | 2002  | 2004  | 2006  | 2008  | 2010  | 2012  | 2014  | men  | women 