Women and Tech: Bringing Gender Equality in the Digital Ecosystem

Overview

This Policy Brief sheds lights on the existing digital gender divide. In this regard, it assesses the key challenges such as issues around financial and social constraints faced by women in uptake of internet enabled devices, privacy and cybersecurity concerns which limits usage of internet for women and lastly the limited economic participation of women in the digital economy. For addressing these challenges, the brief gives recommendations to undertake digital skilling and literacy for women, to make online space more inclusive and safe for women through understanding their perceptions and to make the digital economy more inclusive and encouraging entrepreneurship amongst women in the research and innovation sector.