Digital Planet

By BBC World Service

The digital gender divide

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Published November 12, 2019 3:00pm

The UN reports a widening digital gender gapThe UN's International Telecommunications Unit has published a report showing that over 4 billion people are now online worldwide. Despite this, the proportion of women using the internet is still much lower than men, especially in the developing world. Susan Teltscher, Head of the Human Capacity Building Division, describes the significance of this growing divide.

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