Gender differences in information seeking behavior in three universities in West Bengal, India

Halder, Santoshi; Ray, Anjali; Chakrabarty, Premangshu

doi:10.1080/10572317.2010.10762869

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“…There is a commonly held belief that women are more likely than men to seek advice; examples of this behavior include seeking help from health professionals or via the Internet, and seeking directions when lost. This gender difference in advice seeking has been supported by research across a range of behavioral contexts [1][2][3][4][5]. The tendency for women to more readily seek advice than men is also supported by a 2010 study conducted by the British automobile insurance company, Sheila's Wheels (see http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/male-drivers-lost-longer-women-refuse-directions/story?id=11949176).…”

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Are Women More Likely to Seek Advice than Men? Evidence from the Boardroom

Levi

Feng

2015

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It is commonly believed that women are more likely to seek advice than men; for example, on aspects of health or asking for directions when lost. This paper investigates whether women's relatively greater propensity for advice seeking extends to important business decisions, specifically those involving corporate takeovers. Consistent with the evidence from other contexts, we show that the presence of female directors on target boards is positively and significantly associated with target boards seeking advice from top-ranked financial advisors. In contrast, we do not observe any significant association between the presence of female directors on bidder boards and their engagement of topranked financial advisors. We argue that the presence of a gender effect for target boards but not for bidder boards is consistent with less overconfident female versus male directors on bidder boards initiating fewer bids, higher litigation risk facing target boards for accepting too little, and the different type of advice sought by bidders and target firms.

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Are Women More Likely to Seek Advice than Men? Evidence from the Boardroom

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Feng

2015

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“…Quality information represents the basis of good decision-making, which becomes pivotal when it comes to healthcare. Information seeking behavior (ISB) refers to those activities a person engages in when identifying his or her own need for information, searching for such information in any way, and using or transferring that information [ 15 ]. Health information seeking relates to the ways in which individuals obtain information, including information about their health, health promotion activities, risks to one’s health, and illness [ 16 ].…”

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“…As far as it concerns gender, many works underlined its strong effect on ISB. As Halder and colleagues [ 15 ] state, "Gender as a variable may be useful for better understanding the cognitive and social background of human information processing and may have important implications for information dissemination services and systems." The same authors, in their study, confirmed one of the well-known gender effects in the literature.…”

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How COVID-19 Changed the Information Needs of Italian Citizens

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Sapienza

2020

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Italy was the first European country to be affected by COVID-19, facing an unprecedented situation. The reaction required drastic solutions and highly restrictive measures, which severely tested the trust of the Italian people. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of the introduced measures was not only linked to political decisions, but also to the choice of the Italian people to trust and rely on institutions, accepting such necessary measures. In this context, the role of information sources was fundamental, since they strongly influence public opinion. The central focus of this research was to assess the information seeking behavior (ISB) of the Italian citizens, to understand how they related to information and how their specific use of information influenced public opinion. By making use of a survey addressed to 4260 Italian citizens, we identified extraordinarily virtuous behavior in the population: people strongly modified their ISB in order to address the most reliable sources. In particular, we found a very high reliance on scientists, which is particularly striking, if compared to the past. Moreover, starting from the survey results, we used social simulation to estimate the evolution of public opinion. Comparing the ISB during and before COVID-19, we discovered that the shift in the ISB, during the pandemic, may have actually positively influenced public opinion, facilitating the acceptance of the costly restrictions introduced.

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“…Therefore, to some extent, Zhihu is a male‐majority social Q&A site, but as far as the music topic is concerned, females are more willing to ask questions. Halder et al () research showed that the main purpose using online information of females is to read or learn, while males preferred to publish information. Similar to earlier studies, Otterbacher () have found additional evidence that IMDb is a male‐majority forum.…”

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Gender differences in music search behaviour on social Q&A sites: A case study on Zhihu

Deng

Zhao

Huang

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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In spite of ample studies on music information behaviour, little is known on how music search behaviour is performed on social question and answer (social Q&A) sites by considering gender differences. Based on a collection of 12,331 music questions collected from Zhihu, the study adopted a mixed research methodology and performed both quantitative analysis and qualitative content analysis to explore gender differences in music search behaviour on social Q&A sites. The results show that males are associated with more questions, answers and followers than females. Males asked question on social Q&A sites mainly for seeking ready reference, whereas females often asked question to promote a discussion. When formulating questions, females tend to use second pronouns and interrogative words like “what” more often than males. In contrast, questions from males tend to include more words and are thus longer than the questions from females. In addition, questions asked by males tend to attract more answers than those from females. Our results shed light to current music information behaviour studies and contribute new insights to the development of a better music service system.

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Gender differences in information seeking behavior in three universities in West Bengal, India

Cited by 21 publications

References 25 publications

Are Women More Likely to Seek Advice than Men? Evidence from the Boardroom

Are Women More Likely to Seek Advice than Men? Evidence from the Boardroom

How COVID-19 Changed the Information Needs of Italian Citizens

Gender differences in music search behaviour on social Q&A sites: A case study on Zhihu

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