Resources

This desk review summarises existing key data points, data sources and trends in adolescent girls’ access to and use of digital technology. It also highlights the gaps in the evidence base and points to where more research is needed.

The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks the evolution of gender-based gaps among four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment) and tracks progress towards closing these gaps over time.

This document seeks to call attention to the potential of STEM education to transform gender norms in the education system, to improve quality learning opportunities for girls, and to highlight key actions that can accelerate girls’ transition between education and technical expert jobs in STEM industries.

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021 highlights how the mobile gender gap continues to improve in South Asia, but less so in other regions. It explores the key barriers preventing women’s equal access to mobile internet as well as the rise of women’s smartphone ownership, notably in India.

The Affordability Report is an annual report produced by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI). It represents an ongoing effort to understand why some countries have succeeded in making internet access more affordable, accessible and universal, and what others can do to catch up quickly. This year’s report examines the state of government policy to bring down broadband costs across 72 low- and middle-income countries.

This report provides a global snapshot of the state of digital gender inequality and finds that even where women are closing the gap on basic internet access, they face a multitude of additional barriers to using the internet and fully participating online. Based on focus groups, interviews and a survey of almost 10,000 women and men across four countries, the report examines these digital gender inequalities.

Meaningful Connectivity is a framework to track the components of connectivity that matter most to users and help decision makers adopt the policies needed to connect people to an internet that is useful and empowering. This short paper reports the results of a series of research exercises, illustrates how the meaningful connectivity metric can be applied in practice, and suggests what kinds of targets policymakers can use to achieve meaningful, universal access.

This document seeks to call attention to the potential of STEM education to transform gender norms in the education system, to improve quality learning opportunities for girls, and to highlight key actions that can accelerate girls’ transition between education and technical expert jobs in STEM industries.

This publication offers a review of #eSkills4Girls activities to date and presents ongoing projects. It looks at prospects for the future, addressing decision-makers in the fields of politics, the private sector and civil society, as well as interested members of the public.

This report provides insights to consider when implementing projects that aim to increase women’s access to and use of the internet. These include involving women in all aspects of the initiative, from design to delivery; ensuring initiatives are holistic in nature and take into account all barriers to access; and emphasising the need for basic digital skills.

The publication features recommendations on actions to overcome global gender gaps in digital skills, with a special examination of the impact of gender prejudice coded into some of the most prevalent artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as digital voice assistants.

The report highlights the implications of persistent gaps across different facets of digital technologies. It also presents a compilation of case studies written by more than 25 leading experts and researchers that tell the story of how technology impacts women and girls in various contexts, including jobs and wages, security and privacy, cyber threats, and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI).

This study aims to identify key factors and trends in the participation of women in ICT and its dynamics and analyses the practices enabling women's participation in the digital world. If existing biases are not addressed, rapid economic advances achieved by digital transformation will rather increase existing gender gaps instead of diminishing them.

The report provides operational recommendations for the design and implementation of gender-inclusive digital jobs interventions for youth and identifies design elements and strategies that are especially helpful in connecting young women to the digital economy.

This document provides an overview of the importance of advancing digital inclusion for women. It describes some of the challenges and outlines recommendations for coordinated and effective action by the G20 to support women’s empowerment and equal participation in the digital future.

The paper outlines ways in which policy makers can facilitate the internet’s positive potential through an enabling framework for women’s digital inclusion. In its conclusions, the paper reaffirms that the internet has great potential to advance women’s equality and empowerment, but that will not be achieved without greater understanding, analysis and policy development which seeks to align digital development with gender equality.

The new OECD report says women are not currently empowered to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the digital transformation. The report calls for concrete actions including investments in broadband infrastructure, education and skills, and actions to tackle gender stereotypes and address social norms that lead to discrimination.

The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development’s Working Group on the Digital Gender Divide, co-chaired by the GSMA and UNESCO, released a report, which sets specific recommendations to address the barriers women face in order to access and use the Internet. The report highlights key action areas for different types of stakeholders as part of the group’s efforts to ensure that all women and girls can fully participate in the online world.

This report aims at understanding the role of ICT in realising women's rights, gender equality, and women's economic empowerment. Building on existing data and information from leading experts, including the GSMA, the ITU, the World Bank, and the Alliance for Affordable Internet, Panoply Digital collected real-life stories from 22 women who have navigated various obstacles to carve out a career for themselves in the digital sector.

The report addresses questions related to the integration of digital literacy in education systems with a special focus on girls and young women. Experts from academia, politics, private sector, non-governmental and international organisations
identify challenges, but also promising approaches and recommendations for further action.

The article provides a wide range of data on the digital gender divide. It focuses specifically on the urban-rural divide as well as on age as a factor in the digital gender gap. Recommendations are given on how to ensure gender-responsive policies with regards to ICT.

The website promotes gender equality in the digital age. It provides basic data on the digital gender gap and features testimonials of prominent supporters.

The article gives a general overview on the subgoals, which are to be achived under the umbrella of SDG number 5, by 2030.

The Gender Toolbox gathers knowledge material and method support on gender equality in the form of tools, briefs and thematic overviews.