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Women on the Web

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 1, 1995

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(From The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 August 1995.)

The World-Wide Web is attracting more women and people without technical backgrounds to the Internet.

Those are among the conclusions of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who conducted a survey of about 13,000 Web users this spring.

Georgia Tech researchers… found that 15.5 per cent of their respondents were female, compared with only 6 per cent who answered a similar survey in October 1994.

“This shows that the people browsing the Web are becoming more like the general population,” says James E. Pitkow, one of the researchers.

The survey also found that nearly a third of Web users were in the computer industry, nearly a quarter were in education, and about one in five were professionals. Three-quarters of the respondents said they browsed on the Web at least once a day, four of ten did so up to four times a day.

  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

Bibliographic information about this document: Smith's Report, no. 26, September 1995, p. 2; The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 August 1995
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