{"id":3223,"date":"2021-10-11T16:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/digital-gender-gap-men-50-more-likely-to-be-online-in-some-countries-report\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:37:44","slug":"digital-gender-gap-men-50-more-likely-to-be-online-in-some-countries-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/digital-gender-gap-men-50-more-likely-to-be-online-in-some-countries-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital gender gap: men 50% more likely to be online in some countries \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet hampering developing economies and fuelling gender inequality<\/p>\n<p>A failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet has cost low-income countries $1tn (\u00a3730bn) over the past decade and could mean an additional loss of $500bn by 2025 if governments don\u2019t take action, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/webfoundation.org\/research\/costs-of-exclusion-report\/\">new research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, governments in 32 countries, including India, Egypt and Nigeria, lost an estimated $126bn in gross domestic product because women were unable to contribute to the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/11\/digital-gender-gap-cost-low-income-countries-billions-india-egypt-nigeria-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a2a9543803131ad1ebe1f5b807c7f3fd869f927c\/0_819_3643_2186\/master\/3643.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=df9b56be741236979abac171efbd9d3b\" title=\"Digital gender gap: men 50% more likely to be online in some countries \u2013 report\" \/>Failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet hampering developing economies and fuelling gender inequality<br \/>\nA failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet has cost low-income countries $1tn (\u00a3730bn) over the past decade and could mean an additional loss of $500bn by 2025 if governments don\u2019t take action, according to new research.<br \/>\nLast year, governments in 32 countries, including India, Egypt and Nigeria, lost an estimated $126bn in gross domestic product because women were unable to contribute to the digital economy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet hampering developing economies and fuelling gender inequality A failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet has cost low-income countries $1tn (\u00a3730bn) over the past decade and could mean an additional loss of $500bn by 2025 if governments don\u2019t take action, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/digital-gender-gap-men-50-more-likely-to-be-online-in-some-countries-report\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital gender gap: men 50% more likely to be online in some countries \u2013 report<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}