Who’s Got the Phone? Gender and the Use of the Telephone at the Bottom of the Pyramid

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A paper by Ayesha Zainudeen, Tahani Iqbal and Rohan Samarajiva of LIRNEasia in New Media & Society (volume 12, issue 4, June 2010, pages 549-566), using survey data from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Thailand. It finds a gender divide in telephone use in Pakistan, India and, to a lesser extent, Sri Lanka, while no such divide appears in the Philippines or Thailand.