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Why are most Facebook users in India men?
   India’s skewed *** ratio looks even worse on the internet. SEE ALSO: Why are Indian villages banning girls from using mobile phones? Though more Indians are increasingly coming online, they are pre-dominantly male. Of the 153 million Facebook users in India, only about 24 percent are women, according to UK consultancy We Are Social.* In comparison, Indonesia's *** ratio on Facebook stands at 41 percent, Japan's at 48, Australia's at 53, and Hong Kong's at 54. India’s neighboring countries Pakistan and Bangladesh also disappoint with 22 percent, and 23 percent figures respectively.* "This iniquity of access between men and women may explain part of the reason why digital connectivity levels are so low across South Asia, but there's ** obvious reason for the imbalance; Facebook reports its user figures based on active user accounts, **t devices used, so their data is unlikely to be skewed by issues such as shared computers or mobile handsets,” the report said The skewed *** ratio is already a concern in India. As of 2011, India’s ***-ratio was 940 females per 1000 males. Things have started to improve in the recent times with literacy rate going up and general awareness, but the disproportion of gender on the internet elicits the age old debate Read more... More about Internet Access, Facebook, Culture, India, and Tech 
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