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Short Summary
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| Title |
Some Thoughts on Gender and Telecommunications/ICT
Statistics and Indicators (World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators
Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 15-17 January) |
| Author |
Hafkin, N. |
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January 2003 |
| Publisher |
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) |
| Donor |
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) |
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Short Summary |
The purpose of collecting Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) and telecommunications statistics by gender is to
inform national and international policy. Sex-disaggregated statistics
and indicators are needed in a number of areas: access and usage;
content; ICT related employment; technical or ICT related education;
ICT/telecommunication policy; representation in telecommunication/ICT
decision making; impact of telecommunication/ICT on men/women. Statistics
available in the above areas are currently very limited. The one sex-disaggregated
indicator found increasingly frequently is internet usage by country
and region, although such figures are still not available for many
developing countries. Furthermore, there is no standardisation of
data collection, so it is not always clear what the data means. Internet
usage is only part of the story; gender disaggregated data on access
to ICTs other than the internet is also needed, as well as data for
gender indicators. While information is lacking, some examples of
relevant statistics are cited in this paper: Women computer programmers
in Western Europe constitute 3.5 per cent of the total; no European
Union member state has more than one third women researchers in engineering
and technology, the average is 10 per cent. In Asia, women make up
20 per cent of programmers - mostly in lower skilled positions, while
making up the majority of workers in data processing. |
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