1. Santander, March 2017 Gender Auditor
Gender & ICT
Santander, March 2017
Gender Auditor

2. International commitmentsEU
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
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3. 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.
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4. EU data
54 % of men aged 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 tend to use computers and the internet, compared to 68 % of men.
18 % of women aged use the internet to download software content, compared to 33 % of men (2013);
35 % of women aged 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 use internet banking (2014)
57% of women using the internet for finding information about goods and services cf 62% of men;
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5. 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

6. 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
pubpdf_mh enn_pdfweb_ pdf for full EIGE report
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