Launch of the 2024 Gender Report: Technology on her terms

The 2024 Gender Report delves into the nuanced dynamics of gender and technology within educational settings, acknowledging the potential of technology to transform learning experiences while also recognizing its role in perpetuating existing disparities. The report shows that gender divides exist at all stages of intersections between technology and education. These begin with gaps in the initial access to technology through to how girls and boys study subjects that lead to careers in technology development. The result is a vicious cycle within which girls are constantly on the back foot, ultimately unable to alter the stereotypes and gender bias in technology that might leave them excluded in the first place. 

Entitled Technology on her terms, the report is divided into two parts. The first part reviews progress on gender parity in education for most SDG 4 targets, documenting the continuing growth in girl's and young women’s participation in education at different levels, which has helped reverse decades of discrimination. The second part, assesses gender gaps that have emerged in many countries in terms of access to technology and education and social outcomes, ranging from digital skills to exposure to various risks. This part also discusses how gender disparities, start early, with math anxiety among girls and lack of self-efficacy feeding into later subject choices and careers.