--- title: Five Best: There’s A Gender Gap in Internet Usage description: There’s a gender gap in internet usage, how bankers can help doctors detect Alzheimer’s disease and more. canonical: https://time.com/5062623/theres-a-gender-gap-in-internet-usage/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-13T17:00:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:17.042Z article:section: Ideas og:title: There’s A Gender Gap in Internet Usage og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5062623/theres-a-gender-gap-in-internet-usage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There’s A Gender Gap in Internet Usage twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # There’s A Gender Gap in Internet Usage by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 13, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 13, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**There’s a gender gap in internet usage — and it’s denying women opportunities.**](https://hbr.org/2017/12/theres-a-gender-gap-in-internet-usage-closing-it-would-open-up-opportunities-for-everyone) By Bhaskar Chakravorti in _Harvard Business Review_ **2\.** [**This is how bankers can help doctors detect Alzheimer’s disease.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/12/alzheimers-doctors-bankers-collaboration/) By Jason Karlawish in S_TAT News_ **3\.** [**Terrorist attacks are having a surprising effect: They’re making people more resilient.**](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-terrorist-attacks-can-make-people-more-resilient/) By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux in _FiveThirtyEight_ **4\.** [**The world needs a NATO for cyberwar.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/opinions/america-global-cyber-showdown/index.html) By Craig A. Newman at _CNN_ **5\.** [**Colleges are the key to fixing America’s broken youth sports model.**](https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/ncaa-vps-say-colleges-need-help-repair-broken-youth-sports-model/) By Oliver Luck and Brian Hainline at the _Aspen Institute_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5062623/theres-a-gender-gap-in-internet-usage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5062623/theres-a-gender-gap-in-internet-usage/"},"headline":"There’s A Gender Gap in Internet Usage","datePublished":"2017-12-13T17:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:17.042Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5062623/theres-a-gender-gap-in-internet-usage/","keywords":["Innovation","Internet","Education","Terrorism","Alzheimer's","Five Best Ideas"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5062623/theres-a-gender-gap-in-internet-usage/","name":"There’s A Gender Gap in Internet Usage"}}]}] ```