We make cities greener . How can we protect animals and their habitats . What to do with all our waste . We can make a difference by choosing reforestation over deforestation recycling over disposable smarten solutions over steam set in our ways. Earth is truly unique, and we know that that uniqueness is what allows us to live and survive. Google ideas, the environmental series in global 3000. 00 on d, w, and online women across the globe have less access to the internet than men. And online content is primarily authored and edited by men, most device and f designers are men to all this contribution to digital inequality. Today on shift were covering the digital gender gap. Ah. According to the 2021 inclusive internet index, 14 percent more men have Internet Access than women across the globe. In other words, men are 40 percent more able to educate themselves to Business Online and keep in touch with others. Not exactly what you would call gender equality. And yet its one of the 17 goals the United Nations have set to achieve Sustainable Development for quite. But the digital gender gap isnt the same everywhere in europe. Internet access isnt the problem anymore. But the gap between men and women programmers is enormous. In germany, for instance, 4 times as many men as women are programmers. But women in the global south phase, the more existential problem. Many women there do not have smartphones or cant afford to go online. In india, a group of women is confronting these obstacles and demanding greater digital inclusion. Wow with kathy, im navy that will pull in july of you may delegate. I did they then as ag was now and then i saw some idea he was go made it a matlab. Is it a diet . Using a mobile phone is still a far off reality for most women in india, only one in for own a smartphone, whereas nearly half all the men do without one accessing the internet becomes near impossible. In rule india, 3 quarters of women have never been online at all. Indian economist agenda expert, we telling the cool warms that women are missing out on professional opportunities. We all live on line and youre seeing that if women dont have access to that device, then women are not in this economy. And thats whats important, isnt there to have women be bought of girls. India is not an isolated case across large parts of the world, men are more likely to get online with their phones than women. This is especially true in south asia and sub saharan africa, where the mobo internet gap is over a 3rd. One reason for this gender divide is affordability. Women tend to and less money than men, and often concho to the costs of a smartphone or internet data. Digital illiteracy is another huddle older and less educated. Women often dont know how to use a phone, go online or open an application. Another reason gender stereotypes. So if we look in fact, i was driving them. This is going to buy one is of course, social norms are the most important. One, how a woman spends dying, interacting with a one where she speaking dont wish, not speaking . No. What does she think the stock been wanted on a whole and, and therefore there is a lot of oversight from me as relatives well missions required in the usage of the form. And this makes the initiatives to familiarize women with digital technology. All the more important buddy, bye, but then i had them up but im getting it though up. Oh god. The good news. The gap between men and women who access the internet with their fence is slowly closing with phones becoming cheaper and cheaper women in south asia. Especially the started to go online, they are leading a global trend, but inequality doesnt stop at the actual access to smartphones. Theres also their programming and design. Go ahead and pick up your smartphone. Can you easily use it with just one hand . If so, youre most likely a man and even more importantly, do you have a convenient place to put it away . It certainly doesnt fit into my pants pocket. And unfortunately, using smartphones also reveals problems for gender equality. If you unlock your smartphone, youll immediately see one thing maps designed by men. Google maps has no option to suggest the safest route. An important feature for women at night. And Digital Assistants are usually female by default. Why . Probably because 9 out of 10 Software Designers are men, but things are changing, and increasing number of women are working as designers and programmers, and theyre organizing to havent ever greater impact on technological development. Ladies that you x is one of the top tech design organizations run by women. And stephanie k, go from berlin is one of them. Shes shocked how even Tech Companies like apple have given female users so little thought for so long. Epa harris, the apple health that was launched in 2014 and 15 and almost every one knows it at launch. It could measure nearly everything, steps, nutrition, but one thing found by the wayside Womens Health they just overlooked that. Told us on type some type of ma for guessing. But such decisions often are not part of a deliberate strategy. Is a manual thing. It may be just doesnt occur to these men, you know, if the team were more heterogeneous, that might help prevent this from happening. The last wish person would own. It took apple a year to respond to womens protests. After that, a period tracker was added to the app but fem tech is an increasingly successful business model. The sector focused on Womens Health is forecast to hit the 50000000000 euro mark in the next 5 years. Thats 3 times the size. It was in 2020 eda tin invented the ap clue used to monitor women menstrual cycles. She played a major role in coining the word sam tech. A term meant to appeal to mail investors to it at 10 is also one of the few women to have her own wikipedia article and it even has a photo. She is fortunate because less than a quarter of all biographies on wikipedia are on women. But the women are rarely seen as here than 20 percent of the articles include photos, the organization whose knowledge isnt satisfied with their advocating for women to be better represented on wikipedia, including with photos. In the past years, over 15000 images have been uploaded as part of the campaign, visible wiki women. And thats an important step according to an a c. S in gupta, a co founder of whose knowledge for over 15 years, indian author honest. So yes and gupta has been helping the online encyclopedia grow and she also works for with the media. The charity that runs wikipedia. But shes a harsh critic too, and demands for efforts to be made to close the gender gap on wikipedia. What is known as the gender gap is essentially 2 things. One that theres a content gap around issues related to women and gender nonconforming, non binary folks on wikipedia. And secondly that theres a contribute a gap. So for instance, only one in 10 editors is estimated to self identifies female oh, non binding. These 2 factors play a significant role in the fact that wikipedia content stems largely from men in north america and europe. But why are women less active on wikipedia . There are various reasons, a considerable one is time. Women simply have less time to sit at the computer because the division of labor prevailing in many patriarchal or once patriarchal societies is also present in the Digital World. And theres another reason. Wikipedia works like any enlightment driven encyclopedia does. It expects to have reliable sources like books or Journal Articles or well known newspapers. But all of these things are predicated on publishing own gender gap. And so the existing gender cap is replicated in the Digital World. One example of this is canadian physicist donna strickland, winner of the 2018 nobel prize in physics at the time she did not yet have a wikipedia article. Even despite having forged a 30 year career in science and on a strict and is a wide north american which improves her off of being visible according to an a 3 i single bda. Theres also intersection, gender gaps, not just women being under represented, but of course, black and brown, women, women from the global south, indigenous women. So multiple marginalization take place through the gender gap. And these disadvantages and terms of perception equal opportunities and representations arent limited to humans. Were even passing it on to artificial intelligence, which replicates humans inequalities. For instance, when it comes to Image Recognition systems controlled by algorithms. Experiments have shown that Cloud Services offered by microsoft and ibm are great at recognizing white men, but struggle the most with black women. So the discrimination is twofold. Both racial and gender based a test carried out using googles Image Recognition software on photos of us. Members of congress showed that photos of female politicians were assigned physical characteristics 3 times as often as their male colleagues. The 2 top labels for men were business, person and official. While photos of women were usually labeled, chin, or smile. And the difficulties dont stop there. Smart speakers like amazon echo Google Assistant or apple. Siri are trained using voice recording, spanning high womens voices, and deep male ones. But since fewer womens voices are used to train these speaking a i assistance, they have a harder time understanding female voices. Another problem is that these devices are set to speak with a womans voice by default. Once in california begins issuing state ideas where the 3rd general rado becomes 5th state to allow their gender on licenses in 2019 unesco report shows that this can have real life consequences. Alexa are not the ones okay. Giving orders to a seemingly female assistant could perpetuate the cliche that its easier to tell a woman what to do than a man. But theres help in sight. Like the gender neutral Voice Assistant q from denmark. Hi, im q, the wells 1st gentlest Voice Assistant. What a great idea, why do digital voice assistance have to be men or women anyway . Theyre just machines. And we should look at the Digital World through a more diverse lens, whether it comes to design programming or content. Take the dating at bumble, developed by women and men for old genders. Its founder, whitney wolf, hurt one at Online Dating to be safer for women. And im bumbled. They always have to make the 1st move. Her idea made whitney wolf hurt. The youngest female self med billionaire in the world in 2021. This shows that the digital gender gap is narrowing. But especially in the regions that have been hardest hit by gender inequality, things really need to speed up. Whats your take on it . Where do you see the greatest need for improvement . Should have the message on youtube or at the w dot com. Take care and see you next move. Ah. But to the future, with an iconic car of the eightys. Uh no, lori is one so flop fords manufacturer. Now it is re more as a visionary, electric vehicle. Sustainable and sexy. Delore. Rev. Next on d, w. Ah. The landscape, a reflection of a turbulent history. The cities, the mosaic of different people and languages. Irans mountains reveal unparalleled beauty. Julia, hello, the scenery is magnificent particularly warm and our position is exceptionally ah, a special look at a special country. Iran from above. Start september 16th on d. W. Ah. 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