News Finding: The Facebook Gender Divide and Gender Equality
  
  Lead author David Garcia and his team found that the FBG was significantly and negatively correlated with economic, educational, and health gender equality measurements from the World Economic Forum.
Paper Finding: The red scale shows countries with positive FGD-that is, higher proportion of males on Facebook.
News Context: The data posed two interesting questions: why is Facebook dominated by men in these select few countries and why do women use Facebook more heavily in most countries? The Facebook Gender Divide and Gender Equality
  
  Lead author David Garcia and his team found that the FBG was significantly and negatively correlated with economic, educational, and health gender equality measurements from the World Economic Forum. Put simply, equal access to health services, education, and the economy of a country are all factors that increase the likelihood that Facebook use is close to equal by each gender.
Paper Context: The FGD has a value below zero when women tend to be more active on Facebook that men, a value close to zero for equal activity tendencies, and a positive value when men are more active on Facebook than women in a country. The red scale shows countries with positive FGD-that is, higher proportion of males on Facebook. The scale towards FGD below zero (more tendency for women to be on Facebook) is much narrower than above zero, as can be seen in the scatter plot with the activity ratios of each gender ( Countries with strong FGD above zero are located around Africa and South West Asia, as shown on Fig.