Digital gender gap has cost over $1 trillion - so far

Tom Allen
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Digital gender gap has cost over $1 trillion - so far
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Digital gender gap has cost over $1 trillion - so far

Men are more than half as likely to have internet access than women in the world's poorest countries

Unequal access to the internet between men and women has cost governments hundreds of billions of dollars over the last decade, and the losses will accelerate without action. Men are 21 per cent...

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