Forrester Research Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts has released a report predicting that more than 18 million women will be on the Internet by the year 2000, up from 5 million today. The study reckons that most of this growth will come from women accessing from the workplace. Forrester interviewed 100 female Internet users last July to examine their on-line habits and found that most women are experimenters rather than evangelists of the new medium. Analyst Kate Delhagen says that while the survey found that nearly 50% of women say what they do on-line is different from what men do, the study found that age was a more important factor in determining Internet usage. Ms Delhagen calls it more of a generation than a gender gap.
