Studie der World Wide Web-Foundation, 20.10.2015 (engl. Originalfassung)
»Women 50% less likely than men to access the Web in poor urban areas of the developing world, and 30-50% less likely to use the Internet to increase their income or participate in public life, finds Web Foundation report.
Mobile phones are not enough to achieve empowerment
New research by the Web Foundation, established by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, shows that the dramatic spread of mobile phones is not enough to get women online, or to achieve empowerment of women through technology. The study, based on a survey of thousands of poor urban men and women across nine developing countries*, found that while nearly all women and men own a mobile phone, women are still nearly 50% less likely to access the Internet than men in the same communities, with Internet use reported by just 37% of women surveyed (vs 59% of men). Once online, across countries women are 30-50% less likely than men to use the Internet to increase their income or participate in public life. [...]
Maintaining existing ties through social media
Maintaining existing family and neighbourhood ties through social media is the main Internet activity for urban poor women, with 97% of male and female Internet users surveyed using social media. »Informal networks are a vital social insurance mechanism for the poor and ICTs have become an indispensable tool for strengthening these relationships,« said Ingrid Brudvig, author of the study. »However, there is a real risk that online social networks simply recreate the inequalities that poor women face in their offline lives, rather than helping them to open up new horizons, and policymakers must take steps to ensure the Internet becomes a truly empowering force.« [...]
Digital skills should be the right of every girl and boy
»Most poor urban women are confined to an ICT ghetto that does little to help them break out of the real ghetto of poverty and gender discrimination,« added Anne Jellema, Web Foundation CEO. »Governments need to make digital skills the right of every girl and boy as part of a wider commitment to quality education for all, move faster to bring costs down and develop strategies that explicitly aim to increase women’s civic, political and economic power through technology.« [...]
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