{"id":22128,"date":"2026-09-24T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=22128"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:51:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:51:35","slug":"20260924-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20260924-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Journal Publishes Researchers\u2019 Study on the Links Between Sex, Age and the Digital Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A research article by Dr Raimonda Bublien\u0117 and Dr Ingrida Ma\u010dernyt\u0117-Panomariovien\u0117, researchers at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, and Dr Aurelija Burinskien\u0117, Associate Professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, entitled \u201cIntersectional Discrimination in Employment in the Digital Age: Sex, Age, Email Non-Use and Unemployment in the EU\u201d, has been published in the international open-access journal \u201cSocial Sciences.\u201d<\/p>

The article uses Eurostat data for the 27 EU Member States for 2016\u20132025 and applies two-way fixed-effects models to examine the association between email non-use and unemployment, separately for men and women aged 25\u201354 and 55\u201374. The researchers found a positive association between higher rates of email non-use and unemployment among people aged 25\u201354. However, this association is not sufficiently robust: the results change substantially when country-specific linear trends are included, while additional analysis also raises concerns about the temporal ordering of the variables. The estimates for the 55\u201374 age group are statistically inconclusive. The authors therefore emphasise that the observed relationships should be understood as specification-sensitive conditional associations rather than causal relationships. Email non-use does not in itself measure digital skills, while the statistical data do not allow for determining whether individuals experienced discrimination or which specific factors contributed to their unemployment. The findings do not support the conclusion that reducing email non-use would reduce unemployment. The article notes that further research on intersectional discrimination should examine separately the specific barriers that may be faced by women from ethnic minorities, older women and women with disabilities, while avoiding the assumption that the experiences of all these groups are uniform.<\/p>

The article was prepared as part of the postdoctoral fellowship project \u201cAnalysis of Multiple Discrimination and Labour Income: A Comparative Study of the Legal Regulation in European Countries (MEDALIC)\u201d, implemented at the LSMC Law Institute and funded by the Research Council of Lithuania. More information about the project is available here: https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/projektai\/medalic\/<\/a>.<\/p>

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Tarptautiniame atvirosios prieigos \u017eurnale \u201eSocial Sciences\u201c publikuotas Lietuvos socialini\u0173 moksl\u0173 centro Teis\u0117s instituto mokslininki\u0173 dr. Raimondos Bublien\u0117s, dr. Ingridos Ma\u010dernyt\u0117s-Panomariovien\u0117s ir Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universiteto docent\u0117s dr. Aurelijos Burinskien\u0117s mokslo straipsnis \u201eIntersectional Discrimination in Employment in the Digital Age: Sex, Age, Email Non-Use and Unemployment in the EU\u201c (S\u0105veikin\u0117 diskriminacija u\u017eimtumo srityje skaitmeniniame am\u017eiuje: lytis, am\u017eius, nesinaudojimas elektroniniu pa\u0161tu ir nedarbas ES). \u0160iame straipsnyje pasitelkiami 2016\u20132025\u00a0m. 27 ES valstybi\u0173 nari\u0173 \u201eEurostato\u201c duomenys ir taikomi dvipusio fiksuoto poveikio modeliai, siekiant i\u0161tirti ry\u0161\u012f tarp elektroninio pa\u0161to nenaudojimo ir nedarbo, atskirai vertinant 25\u201354 met\u0173 ir 55\u201374 met\u0173 vyrus bei moteris. Tyr\u0117jos nustat\u0117 teigiam\u0105 ry\u0161\u012f tarp didesnio elektroninio pa\u0161to nenaudojimo lygio ir nedarbo 25\u201354 met\u0173 am\u017eiaus grup\u0117je. Ta\u010diau \u0161is ry\u0161ys n\u0117ra pakankamai stabilus: \u012ftraukus konkre\u010dioms \u0161alims b\u016bdingas laiko tendencijas, rezultatai reik\u0161mingai pasikei\u010dia, o papildoma analiz\u0117 taip pat kelia abejoni\u0173 d\u0117l ai\u0161kios prie\u017eastin\u0117s \u012fvyki\u0173 sekos. 55\u201374 met\u0173 grup\u0117s rezultatai n\u0117ra statisti\u0161kai \u012ftikinami. Tod\u0117l autor\u0117s pabr\u0117\u017eia, kad nustatyti ry\u0161iai turi b\u016bti suprantami kaip specifikacijai jautrios s\u0105lygin\u0117s s\u0105sajos, o ne prie\u017eastiniai ry\u0161iai. Elektroninio pa\u0161to nenaudojimas savaime n\u0117ra skaitmenini\u0173 \u012fg\u016bd\u017ei\u0173 matas, o statistiniai duomenys neleid\u017eia nustatyti, ar asmenys patyr\u0117 diskriminacij\u0105 ir kokie konkret\u016bs veiksniai l\u0117m\u0117 j\u0173 nedarb\u0105. I\u0161 analizuojam\u0173 duomen\u0173 negalima daryti i\u0161vados, kad suma\u017einus elektroninio pa\u0161to nenaudojim\u0105 suma\u017e\u0117t\u0173 nedarbas. Straipsnyje pa\u017eymima, kad tolesniuose s\u0105veikin\u0117s diskriminacijos tyrimuose reik\u0117t\u0173 atskirai nagrin\u0117ti konkre\u010dias kli\u016btis, su kuriomis gali susidurti etnin\u0117ms ma\u017eumoms priklausan\u010dios moterys, vyresnio am\u017eiaus moterys ir moterys su negalia, kartu vengiant prielaidos, kad vis\u0173 \u0161i\u0173 grupi\u0173 patirtys yra vienodos. Straipsnis para\u0161ytas LSMC Teis\u0117s institutui \u012fgyvendinant Lietuvos mokslo tarybos finansuojam\u0105 podoktorant\u016bros sta\u017euot\u0117s projekt\u0105 \u201eDaugialyp\u0117s diskriminacijos ir darbo pajam\u0173 analiz\u0117: Europos valstybi\u0173 teisinio reguliavimo lyginamasis tyrimas (MEDALIC)\u201c. Pla\u010diau apie \u0161\u012f projekt\u0105 \u017er. https:\/\/teise.org\/projektai\/medalic\/ Vis\u0105 straipsn\u012f galima perskaityti \u010dia.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naujienos","category-268"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22135,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions\/22135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}