Bridging the gender divide. How technology can advance women economically.

TLDR: In this article, the authors discuss how technology can advance women's economic advancement and how it puts the process in motion by showcasing technologies that have helped women in developing countries to increase their productivity create new entrepreneurial ventures or otherwise access new income generating pursuits.

Abstract: Technology defines our era. In the past few decades numerous innovations -- including ever-shrinking computers mobile phones and alternative energies -- have been introduced in homes and workplaces changing the way we live how we work and what were able to do. Bridging the Gender Divide: How Technology Can Advance Women Economically examines why technology is essential to womens economic advancement and clarifies how it puts the process in motion by showcasing technologies that have helped women in developing countries to increase their productivity create new entrepreneurial ventures or otherwise access new income-generating pursuits. This paper builds on ICRWs long-standing research and program work on the realities of what it takes to enable women to increase their resources and economic opportunities and strengthen their ability to compete in market economies. Most important it speaks to the growing number of actors driving innovation from the public private and social sectors with practical recommendations on how to improve the way technologies are developed and deployed so they benefit women and enable them to be more successful economic actors stronger leaders and greater contributors to their families communities and domestic economies. (Excerpt)