There are 200 million fewer women online globally...
There are 200 million fewer women online globally then men and the gap could grow to 350 million in the next three years if action isn’t taken, said the Broadband Commission Working Group on Broadband and Gender in a report…
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Monday (http://bit.ly/19u2n0Q). Of the world’s 2.8 billion Internet users, 1.3 billion are women, vs. 1.5 billion men, and the gap widens in the “developing world, where expensive, ‘high status’ [information and communications technology] like computers are often reserved for use by men,” said the report. Globally, women are on average 21 percent less likely to own a mobile phone, which equates to $1.3 billion “potential missed revenues for the mobile sector,” said the report. The Broadband Commission said every 10 percent increase in broadband access results in 1.38 percent growth in GDP. By 2015, the Broadband Commission estimates 90 percent of formal employment across all sectors will require ICT skills and professionals with computer science degrees can expect to earn salaries similar to doctors and lawyers. However, women now are fewer than 20 percent of ICT specialists, said the report.