Women’s Rights Online

New research: How is Mexico advancing women’s online access?

April 5, 2018

We’re excited to share that Derechos Digitales , a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing and protecting rights in the digital space, and a member of our Women’s Rights Online Read more

8 on March 8: Global tactics for women’s access and online rights

March 8, 2018

To mark International Women’s Day, we asked members of our Women’s Rights Online network to share their priorities for work to close the digital gender gap and achieve digital equality.Read more

Related Research

React with gender-responsive ICT Policy

January 9, 2018

Leaders around the globe have declared their commitment to making universal, affordable internet access a reality for all, but no country will achieve universal internet access withoutRead more

Women’s Rights Online Digital Gender Gap Audit

September 9, 2016

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are powerful tools for achieving everything from enhanced incomes and wider access to credit, to quality education and healthcare for all andRead more

More About This Project

Internet access offers a powerful avenue for people around the world to assert their rights and to claim social, economic and political opportunities for empowerment. Yet, half the world’s population remains offline

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most of them women, and most in developing countries. Recent research shows that this persistent, pernicious digital gender gap is worsening — a fact that threatens to deepen existing inequalities and to undermine global development as the benefits of technological change are captured primarily by men. Our Women’s Rights Online network is working to reverse this trend by focusing its efforts on impacting the policy needed to bridge the gender gap in technology, data, and policymaking. Comprising women’s rights and digital rights groups across 17 low- and middle-income countries, the network wants to see evidence-based national ICT and gender plans established in at least seven new countries within the next five years.