본 논문은 기혼여성, 주부1)의 인터넷 이용에 따르는 정보격차와 정보 불평등에 관한 것으로 주부집단 내 인터넷 이용을 중심으로 정보격차 실태를 파악하고, 집단 내 차이를 가져오는 변인을 분석하여 연구결과의 합의를 살펴보았다. 정보격차(information divide)란 ‘디지털 정보에 대한 접근과 이용이 사회집단에 따라 다르게 나타나는’ 것으로, 연령, 학력, 소득과 같은 사회경제적 요인에 의한 정보격차는 사회구조적인 정보 불평등을 합의한다. 본 연구는 수도권 지역 기혼여성(918명)을 대상으로 인터넷 이용실태를 조사하였으며, 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째 가정 내 컴퓨터 보유율이 87.8%로 높게 나타나 주부의 인터넷 접근정도는 높다고 할 수 있으나, 연령, 학력, 소득, 자녀수, 거주지역에 따라 다르게 나타났다. 둘째 인터넷 이용은 55.1%였으며, 연령, 소득, 학력, 자녀수, 거주규모에 따라 유의미한 차이를 보였다. 셋째 인터넷 이용수준은 정보검색(48.2%), 전자메일 이용 및 채팅(26.4%), 자료의 다운로드(29.0%) 등 대체로 주로 기본적인 이용을 하였다. 넷째 인터넷 활용의 경우 글, 의견의 개진경험은 23.6%였으나, 인터넷 쇼핑의 경우는 34.4%정도였다. 다섯째 주부의 인터넷 이용에 있어서 ‘직업효과’에 대한 검증결과는 유의미하였다(p<001). 이상 연구결과에서 주부의 인터넷 이용은 연령, 소득, 학력, 자녀의 수, 거주지역과 같은 사회경제적인 변인에 따라 격차를 보임을 알 수 있는데, 이는 사회구조적으로 정보 불평등이라는 합의를 지니며, 정부차원에서 지속적인 노력과 정책대안의 마련이 없는 한, 정보사회에서도 성 불평등(gender inequality)이 심화될 수 있음을 시사한다.
This article is about information divide and inequality by internet use of married women. Recently It seems to bring to serious problems about information divide and inequality around internet use of married women that is being diffusion of them. In terms of it this is article researched that how many married women use internet and which variables result in signifiant difference on internet use of married women and what is implications from that the research's result is, and that whether it is information divide or information inequality, in which married women's internet use is broadly in spread. Information divide means that access and use of digital information are different from social status and positions. Specially because social factors which are age, education levels, income are brings to information divide it is not simple digital divide but it is a serious information inequality Also this is a serious social problem in comtemporary society. In this article, it is used the data that is the result of social survey, in which it' samples are consist of 918 case of married women and for researching difference in internet use of them. The results of this study will be summarise such as follows. First, In terms of internet access the rate of computer possession per household is 87.8%, in which the degree of internet access of married women is comparatively high and there are social-structural information inequality among housewives because of significant difference by age, education level, house income, the members of child and the region of residence. Secondly, In terms of internet use the rate of internet use is 55.1%, in which the degree of internet use of married women is not comparatively low and it's implication that there are social-structural information inequality in terms of internet use among married women. Thirdly, The levels of internet use of married women are searching information(48.2%), e-mail and chatting(26.4%), up and down load of data(29.0%) and married women are being used internet basically. Fourth, The married women who have been presented own opinion are 23.6% and the housewives who have been internet shopping are 34.4%. Fifth, 'work effects' has been verification with internet use of married women significantly(p<001). To be summarized the research's result, internet use of married women has been divided with access, use and application by variables that age, education level, house income, the members of child and the region of residence. So this result has implication that this is informations inequality in the social-structural level because of variables' social-economic characters and in effect it is make dark hopeful vision of women's role in information society. It is implicated that gender inequality will be enforce without continuos efforts and preparation for policy alternative.