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Calling  A Solution To Closing The Gender Gap Is Literally In The Palm Of Your Hands

Calling A Solution To Closing The Gender Gap Is Literally In The Palm Of Your Hands

by The Daily Eye Team March 3 2016, 3:14 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

Women in certain countries are less likely than men to own a key tool for fighting gender inequality: smartphones.
A recent studyby the Pew Research Center identified gender disparities in device ownership and noted that more men than women have smartphones in about half the countries examined. This gender divide for smartphones tends to be deepest in developing countries, though a gap between the sexes also exists in wealthy nations like Canada and the U.K.Overall, researchers found a gender gap in 19 of 40 countries surveyed. The most significant disparities appear in Mexico, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana.

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