Santander, March 2017 Gender Auditor Gender & ICT Santander, March 2017 Gender Auditor
International commitments EU EIGE – report in drive ICT policies through jobs, training, education, R&D… United Nations ICT resolutions since 1998 SDGs Specialised UN ICT agency ‘to enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment’ UN SDGs Urban Waste presentation title
EU commitment To gender equality in ICT jobs To gender equality in ICT Where men dominate jobs in ICT, design is likely to incorporate (unconscious) gender bias To gender equality in ICT access The EC Digital Agenda for Europe addresses the low numbers of women working in ICT; needs to better understand women in the ICT context; needs to raise the relevance of women’s participation in the digital economy & society. Urban Waste presentation title
EU data 54 % of men aged 16-74 use mobile devices to access the internet, compared to 48 % of women in the same age group. 59% of women were using the internet every day compared to 65% of men 32% of women had a smart phone cf 39% of men (2013) 62 % of women 16-74 tend to use computers and the internet, compared to 68 % of men. 18 % of women aged 16-74 use the internet to download software content, compared to 33 % of men (2013); 35 % of women aged 16-74 use the internet to listen to the radio or watch television programmes online, compared to 41 % of men (2014); 42 % of women compared to 47 % of men aged 16-74 use internet banking (2014) 57% of women using the internet for finding information about goods and services cf 62% of men; Urban Waste presentation title
IT-U Statistics Country % men using internet from any location % women using internet from any location Women as % of men (men as % of women) Croatia 74.4 65.4 87.9 Cyprus 73.3 70.2 95.7 Denmark 96.2 96.4 99.7 France 85.7 83.7 97.7 Greece 69.3 64.5 93.1 Italy 69.6 61.7 88.6 Portugal 71.8 65.7 91.5 Spain 80.3 77.1 93.5 http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx
EIGE Recommendations Integration of gender into the policy cycle: Definition Planning Action Checking Requires use of gender disaggregated data on gendered ICT use/access; education, training and labour force statistics http://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/ti_ pubpdf_mh0216896enn_pdfweb_20170124121443.pdf for full EIGE report Urban Waste presentation title