Nearly 90% of adolescents and young women from the poorest countries do not access the Internet, according to a report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
This percentage is higher when compared with two children and two men of the same age, referring to the Fund document, which highlights the role of education in these inequalities, after analyzing data on the use of research carried out in 54 countries, mainly low-income countries. and some of medium yields.
“In low-income countries, 90% of adolescents and young women between the ages of 15 and 24 (close to 65 million people) are not ‘online’, compared to 78% of two adolescents and young men of the same City (quase 57 thousand) that do not use the Internet”, according to the study, disclosed at the fourth fair.
In 2020, UNICEF and the União Internacional das Telecomunicações estimate that only 37% of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 throughout the world have access to the Internet at home.
But this estimate “hides impressive gender disparities in access to hardware [equipment], in the use of the Internet and in digital skills within the home,” according to the UN agency.
“Bridging the digital gap between girls and boys is not just providing access to the Internet and technology,” said UNICEF director of education, Robert Jenkins, in a statement.
“It is about training the raparigas to become innovators, breeders and leaders”, sublinhou.
The report indicated that, although the children generally have better basic reading skills, it is not translated into the digital sphere.
In these countries, “adolescent girls and young women are excluded and left outside the digital literacy field,” she lamented to UNICEF, highlighting the importance of the family environment and education in this situation.
“If we want to fight the inequality between men and women in the labor market, especially in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, we have to start now to help young people, especially girls, to acquire digital skills”, he affirmed. Jenkins.
The report also provided for a large lacuna does not access the telemóveis. In 41 two surveyed countries, girls and women between the ages of 15 and 24 are “at a great disadvantage”, with an average probability of 13% of owning a telemobile, “limiting their access to the digital world”, which It is so vital in the economy of the 21st century.
