Narrowing the mobile gender gap
Africa Science Focus
English - August 11, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBNews scidev scidevnet scidev.net science africa development news tech health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Women in low- and middle-income countries are 15 per cent less likely to use mobile internet services than men -- that’s 234 million fewer women than men connected to the worldwide web -- according to a new report. And some of the biggest gender gaps are in Sub-Saharan Africa. This week we ask: what is blocking women from accessing these services? And how can this gender divide be bridged?
Our reporter, Charles Pensulo, speaks to women in Malawi, and toMehjabeen Alarakhia, a UN policy advisor on women’s economic empowerment, about the challenges facing women in the digital space.
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Africa Science Focus, with Michael Kaloki.
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