Access To Digital Technology Accelerates Global Gender Equality
by The Daily Eye Team May 19 2016, 10:56 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 36 secsIn every industry, digital technologies are transforming the status quo. Now we have evidence that they are also bringing us closer to workplace equality. Digital fluency is helping to level the playing field between men and women at work.
Recent research from Accenture, “Getting to Equal: How Digital Is Helping Close the Gender Gap at Work,” found that when men and women have the same level of digital fluency — defined as the extent to which they embrace and use digital technologies to become more knowledgeable, connected, and effective — women are better at using those digital skills to gain more education and to find work.Accenture surveyed nearly 5,000 men and women in 31 countries