In its first part, the survey explored and highlighted the gender gap in social media usage in the Arab world. Given the sizable difference in percentage of male and female users in the region (the latter constituting only a third of Facebook users) 19 , respondents were asked to identify the main barriers that they perceived were holding back Arab women from fully utilizing social media. The largest of these barriers was identified as the societal and cultural constraints placed on women in the Arab world. To further benchmark women’s use of social media against men’s in the Arab world, the second section.
