Women’s Rights Online

In conversation with Chenai Chair on our latest Women’s Rights Online research

October 12, 2020

A global digital gender divide is keeping hundreds of millions of women and girls from fully participating and contributing online. Research Manager for Gender and Digital Rights ChenaiRead more

Activists and tech companies met to talk about online violence against women: here are the takeaways

August 10, 2020

Unless we make sure the web is a safe place for women and girls, technology will be one more channel for women to be attacked, suppressed, and marginalised.

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Women’s Rights Online Digital Gender Gap Audit Scorecards

December 18, 2020

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are powerful tools for achieving everything from enhanced incomes and wider access to credit, to qualityRead more

Women’s Rights Online: closing the digital gender gap for a more equal world

October 12, 2020

The internet has long been celebrated as a force for greater equality — breaking down barriers for those previously held back by their geography, wealth, race, class and gender. However,Read 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 — 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.