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| | | The regional gender findings from AfterAccess were recently featured in the United Nations University-Equals' Global Partnership's inaugural report, Taking Stock: Data and Evidence on Gender Digital Equality in Digital Access, Skills and Leadership. The report has been combined in an effort to provide a resource for decision makers who are interested in reducing gender disparities in ICT access and use. LIRNEasia contributed to a chapter, Towards understanding the digital gender gap in the Global South, based largely on the nationally representative AfterAccess survey data from 17 (of the 23 surveyed) countries. The chapter relates some of the challenges in collecting rigorous gender-disaggregated data, and then illustrates the magnitudes of the gaps in access to mobile phones, internet and social media in the three regions. The chapter also examines gender digital inequality in the three regions through different lenses and methods. The analysis provides statistical evidence that speaks to the importance of education and income in determining ICT adoption and use across the Global South. The chapter argues that the underlying gender disparities in these two key variables are major contributors to the gender 'gaps' that we see in simple descriptive numbers. In addition the chapter uncovers some of the digital [...] | ||
