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Web Foundation co-founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith with young women at a technology skills centre in Nigeria | Web Foundation CC-BY-4.0

Web Foundation co-founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith with young women at a technology skills centre in Nigeria | Web Foundation CC-BY-4.0

Why the web needs to work for women and girls

Web Foundation · March 12, 2020

On the World Wide Web’s 31st birthday, our founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee reflects on the challenges we face to deliver on our vision of a web for everyone.

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  1. ACHRAF SELLAM

    March 14, 2020

    The web for woman and girl is a question of education. If we have gender divide, then we need education for her. I think when we type the letter (A) in the keyboard we need to know it is the letter (A) else we need to draw it white on the black. The language is the bridge of communication, I cannot see on the web but the written letters anyway. For this issue, we the web engineers should give a better sight out of language. Personally, I love the engineer who write a correct message in the screen of the teller machine, I say the engineer is educated. Talking a language is a gift, then I encourage the people who love to talk many languages and not only the maternal language. The web can be a crucial media for children to learn language especially girls. Instead, we need to invest the web in a big market in order to help the pen reveal what the paper hide. Thank you!

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