{"id":2763,"date":"2016-09-26T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:36","slug":"online-gender-gap-audit-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/09\/26\/online-gender-gap-audit-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Gender Gap Audit published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Wide web Foundation has <a href=\"http:\/\/webfoundation.org\/about\/research\/digital-gender-gap-audit\/\">recently launched its first audit<\/a> of the difficulties women face at getting online.\u00a0 It used 14 indicators and, focusing on 10 nations, shockingly found women were 50% less likely than men to be online, and 30-50% less likely to use the Internet for economic and political empowerment.\u00a0 The website has information on the methodology used, report cards and case studies from Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya,\u00a0 Mozambique,\u00a0Nigeria, the Philippines and Uganda<\/p>\n<p>For further information on Gender and ICT see reports and data from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadbandcommission.org\/focus-area\/Pages\/socialdevelopment.aspx\">the UN Broadband Commission<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/action\/gender-equality\/Pages\/default.aspx\">ITU programmes,<\/a> projects and reports on gender and ICT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Wide web Foundation has recently launched its first audit of the difficulties women face at getting online.\u00a0 It used 14 indicators and, focusing on 10 nations, shockingly found women were 50% less likely than men to be online, and 30-50% less likely to use the Internet for economic and political empowerment.\u00a0 The website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15],"tags":[42,52,61,71,99],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-development","tag-feminism","tag-internet","tag-new-media","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}