The underlying causes of the digital gender gap and possible solutions for enhanced digital inclusion of women and girls

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, attempted to reveal the links between the different factors (access, skills, socio-economic and cultural), which prevented women from having equal access to digital technology.

It then suggested ways of dealing with online and offline inequalities to the effect of closing the digital gender gap and improving women’s and girls’ digital inclusion and future technology-related career paths.

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, March 2018: The underlying causes of the digital gender gap and possible solutions for enhanced digital inclusion of women and girls http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2018/604940/IPOL_STU(2018)604940_EN.pdf

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