Examination of the Influence of Gender on the Use of Domestic Technologies

Abstract

Gender involves clues regarding the social roles and responsibilities of women and men. Given the relationship between the concepts of gender and technology, women, who are considered as the laborers of the domestic production process, constitute the largest group that use domestic technologies. This study was carried out to analyze the influence of gender on the use of domestic technologies. The study includes participation’s (177 married men) demographic variables such as age, working status, education, and spouses working status. Chisquare test, Kruskal–Wallis H-test, and Mann–Whitney U-test were used in data analysis. Those who were the age of 46 and over (39.0%), those who had a job (88.1%), those who had a non-working spouse (71.2%), and those who graduated from high school (35.0%) ranked the first. The results of this study show that cooker was the technology the male participants use the most.

Keywords: Gender; Technology; Domestic Technologies; Social Roles; Social Responsibilities; Work Sharing

Australian Academy of Business and Economics Review, vol 2, issue 4, October 2016, pp 293-302