For the 2022 Girls in ICT Day, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) chose ‘Access and Safety’ as the centerpiece of this year’s agenda because when access and safety barriers are removed, girls and young women reap the benefits of an active digital life.
Today, the global internet use gender gap is about 12.5 percent, according to ITU research. Furthermore, less than 30 percent of today’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) professionals are women. And the outlook for improvement is not good: currently there are approximately half the number of women studying STEM subjects in tertiary institutions than men.
Addressing access: a global issue that requires local solutions
This is not a single problem with a single solution. My colleague, Zohra Yermeche heads Connect To Learn, Ericsson’s global flagship education program, and she oversees the development and deployment of Ericsson’s technology offerings for education globally. She started out at Ericsson as a researcher and has a PhD in signal processing, a branch of electrical engineering. She says that it is important to always consider and understand specifics of each community.
Continue reading: https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2022/4/closing-the-digital-gender-gap
Today, the global internet use gender gap is about 12.5 percent, according to ITU research. Furthermore, less than 30 percent of today’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) professionals are women. And the outlook for improvement is not good: currently there are approximately half the number of women studying STEM subjects in tertiary institutions than men.
Addressing access: a global issue that requires local solutions
This is not a single problem with a single solution. My colleague, Zohra Yermeche heads Connect To Learn, Ericsson’s global flagship education program, and she oversees the development and deployment of Ericsson’s technology offerings for education globally. She started out at Ericsson as a researcher and has a PhD in signal processing, a branch of electrical engineering. She says that it is important to always consider and understand specifics of each community.
Continue reading: https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2022/4/closing-the-digital-gender-gap
