The Gender Digital Divide Primer
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recognizes that the gender digital divide significantly hampers the ability of digital technology to help women improve their lives, the stability of their families, and the resilience of their communities. Through the USAID Digital Strategy, the Agency is committed to sharing best practices learned in previous gender and ICT programs, including the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative’s WomenConnect Challenge, and ensuring that USAID digital development addresses digital inequalities and mitigates potential risks or harms for women and girls entering the online space. USAID will also incorporate digital literacy and skills-building for women into all development programs that have a digital component.
If offers answers to these questions - great to quote in your blog, funding proposal or article about the digital divide:
WHAT IS THE GENDER DIGITAL DIVIDE?
HOW DO WOMEN BENEFIT FROM CLOSING THE DIVIDE?
WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS TO CLOSING THE DIVIDE?
HOW DO WE ADDRESS THE GENDER DIGITAL DIVIDE?
Hello everyone!
We at ILGA World (the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) are conducting a survey to assess the impact of the digital divide on the LGBTI community: it's a quick and completely anonymous survey, through which we would like to understand how LGBTI Reddit users access the internet and how they experience living and being active in the community online. The result will be used for a workshop and possibly for future research and publications.
Here's the link to the survey (takes up to 6 minutes):
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/lgbtidigitaldivide
We would be extremely grateful to hear from you!!
ILGA World is a worldwide federation of more than 1,600 organisations from over 160 countries and territories worldwide, representing people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics. Read more about what we do and on how you can get involved at ilga.org.
I’ve realized that even in Christianity, they don’t have as much of a divide between genders as Muslims do. They get to go to church and sit alongside one another, genders mixing.
In Islam it’s literally just separation. Men and women are separated in the mosques. They’re separated at home. They’re separated at school. There is such a large and clear division between them. The men are in front while the women stand behind them during prayer.
That kind of divide between them is not just a physical one, but a mental one as well. The separation of men and women causes alienation from one another. Of course if you separated men and women and told them not to ever look at each other or they will go to hell, they would have a skewed view of the other gender. Of course if you’re separating boys and girls and then filling the boys heads with ideas that they’re to grow up and be in charge and that women must be taken care of and are weak while telling the girls it’s their job to obey and that men are granted more freedom than them then they’re going to believe these things.
You could say oh but you grow up with brothers and sisters, yes that’s true but growing up with a brother and sister is different than engaging with people of the opposite gender whom you don’t know anything about. If anything, only engaging with the opposite sex who you’re related to is probably worse because they already have these ideas about the opposite gender in their heads because it’s been deliberately fed to them.
This separation is purposeful and is used to magnify the divide between men and women. It’s made to be sexist.
They separate boys and girls in order to brainwash them more easily. Girls are separated from boys and therefore won’t see the clear inequality between the treatment of them and the treatment of boys. It’s about power.
Hey all,
I've noticed more and more that the majority of the men I know want to return to the office for work while the majority of the women I know want to keep work-from-home.
I know personal evidence is not scientific data, so I'm wondering if any of you have had a similar observation? Similarly, have any of you come across surveys and other data on this topic?
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According to the Election Commission’s latest electoral rolls for Bengal, the total number of voters in the state are 7.32 crores, among whom 3.73 crore are men, and 3.59 crore, women.
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Women’s increasing political participation can be attributed to the sharp rise in turnout among rural women voters. Furthermore, there has been an increasing trend of women’s rising participation in the political sphere, which the TMC evidently grabbed with both hands.
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According to EC data in 2016 assembly polls, 48% women voters supported Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool.
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Reservation for women in panchayats has expanded from 33% to 50%
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TMC is also fielding 50 female candidates this assembly polls, which is its highest ever.
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TMC was the only party that nominated women in more than 41% of the seats it contested. Seventeen out of its 42 candidates were women, which was higher than the 33% mark.
However the BJP too is trying to snatch the women votebank.
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BJP has pledged free access to public transport to all women, free education for girls up to post-graduation level and 33% reservation in government jobs for women.
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The BJP’s promises has in fact drawn the attention of women in urban and semi-urban areas, even if not so much in rural Bengal.
BJP targets Urban women unlike TMC. Elite households of Bengal do not like the image of the streetfighter Mamta. A state that had the longest serving Left government, is still somewhere stuck in that whirlwind of elitism and classism. Urban women prefer BJP over Mamta while rural women see her as ‘maatir meye’ or Daughter of the soil.
Either way, it is good to see the feminisation of Indian politics.
https://feminisminindia.com/2021/04/13/women-mamata-banerjee-campaign/
There are all of these perennial issues with pay-gaps and transgender athletes etc., so why not just get rid of gender-based divisions all together?
Hello, since I started earning last year, I have been putting my savings in GSave/CIMB and BPI regular savings. Currently, my GSave is about to reach 250k (can be considered as my EF account, also where I withdraw for taxes/contributions). My BPI account amounts to much less (~60k) since this is where I withdraw money for non-essentials.
This year, I opened an MP2 account with the goal of putting 60k there (paid annually). I already paid for the first year, and considering how I'm about to exceed 250k in GSave, am thinking about whether to pay for the remaining 48k from GSave, so I can continue depositing my earnings twice a month without exceeding the 250k cap (at least until June 30), or open a Tonik TD and deposit a maximum of 100k from my GSave, then get the amount for MP2 from BPI instead, but that will mean >90% of my money will be in digital banks (bad?), so maybe I can delay paying for MP2. Any thoughts?
I hope I’m allowed to ask this, since I haven’t seen any poles on here yet.
Anyway, are you...
Hello everyone!
We at ILGA World (the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) are conducting a survey to assess the impact of the digital divide on the LGBTI community: it's a quick and completely anonymous survey, through which we would like to understand how LGBTI Reddit users access the internet and how they experience living and being active in the community online. The result will be used for a workshop and possibly for future research and publications.
Here's the link to the survey (takes up to 6 minutes):
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/lgbtidigitaldivide
We would be extremely grateful to hear from you!!
ILGA World is a worldwide federation of more than 1,600 organisations from over 160 countries and territories worldwide, representing people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics. Read more about what we do and on how you can get involved at ilga.org.
