Can Data Help Us Close the Technology Gender Gap?

Projects that expand women's access to technology and improve quality of life empower women around the world. Yet despite the progress that's been made, about 300 million women are still part of the "mobile gender gap," a figure that's calculated based on women's access to mobile technology in a given location compared with their male counterparts.

The roadblock to further progress in fixing that gap is that there's just not enough data about women, which is problematic because information is crucial to informing smart public policy.

"In a range of policy areas, it's critically important to have good data, because good data means good policy," U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global W…
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