Expert Comment: What is the 'digital gender gap'?

Published on March 11, 2025

Digital technologies, such as the internet and mobile phones, have spread widely, and become integral to many parts of our lives. Yet women continue to lag behind men in digital access in many countries. The Digital Gender Gaps project team, led by Professor Ridhi Kashyap at the University of Oxford’s Department of Sociology and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, explore the numbers which illustrate women's unequal participation in digital society.
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