American women in communities with ample broadband access lose less time waiting for services, reducing time poverty

September 9, 2026 · 12:47 pm 2 sources

Image: The Conversation

Coverage

Coverage

• American women in communities with ample broadband access lose less time waiting for services, reducing time poverty
  This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. · September 9, 2026 12:47
  Making broadband affordable and training people how to best use it are also key to saving time.

More coverage

• American women in communities with ample broadband access lose less time waiting for services, reducing time poverty
  Phys.org · September 9, 2026 20:40
  Drawing on 14 years of data, we examined whether access to broadband internet could improve Americans' use of time and found that a 10% increase in broadband adoption across a community corresponds to a 1.19% reduction in waiting time.