Gender Differential in Mobile Phone Use and Travel Behaviour

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dc.contributor.authorFakunle, Sunday
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-26T12:05:49Z
dc.date.available2022-09-26T12:05:49Z
dc.date.issued2021-02
dc.description.abstractThe main thrust of this research work was to unveil the effect of globalisation on gender equality as one of the sustainable development goals by examining gender differences in mobile phone use. The specific goal of this research work was to adopt sociological approach to assess the influence of mobile phone use on frequency of trips made on selected social activities among men and women in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria. The study was carried out in the 11 political wards of urban centre of Ile-Ife. The quantitative primary data was sourced from 330 active adults who were purposively selected as the sample size. The ages of these adults range from 35 years to 50 years. In addition, the qualitative primary data was sourced 22 adults (11 males and females respectively) who were purposively selected for in-depth interviews. Contents analysis and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the qualitative data and the quantitative data respectively. This study found gender equality in mobile phone use as more women (55 per cent) used mobile phone for business/work than men (45 per cent); also by use of mobile phone use, more women (41 per cent) had an increase in religion trips than men (40 per cent); more women (40 per cent) had an increase in trips made on visitation to friends/relatives than men (36 per cent), mobile phone use had also generated an increase in trips made on educational purposes for more women (44 per cent) than men (33 per cent). However, this study further found that mobile phone differently influenced the frequency of trips which both gender made on the selected social activities in the study location. Finally, this study concluded that mobile phone use has advanced integrating women into globalisation and thereby promoted gender equality to a certain extent.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAjani, O. A & Fakunle, S. O. (2021). Gender differential in mobile phone use and travel behaviour. Discovery, 57(306):519-529. ISSN 2278–5469 EISSN 2278–5450en_US
dc.identifier.otherE ISSN 2278–5450
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3666
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDiscovery Scientific Societyen_US
dc.subjectSustainable Development Goalsen_US
dc.subjectMobile Phone Useen_US
dc.subjectGender Differenceen_US
dc.subjectTravel Behaviouren_US
dc.titleGender Differential in Mobile Phone Use and Travel Behaviouren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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