from Newsweek
"Women in low- and middle-income countries are 21
percent less likely to have a mobile phone than men, according to a new
report on gender equality by the United Nations, while overall only 36
percent of women (and 41 percent of men) have access to the Internet.
The U.N. Women report,
to be presented to the United Nations by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
to U.N. member states on Monday, does note that women represent half of
all social media users worldwide and three-fifths of bloggers.
So while some progress has been made toward gender parity,
such as the adoption of legislation promoting equality and criminalizing
gender-based violence, the report—released on Friday to coincide with
International Women's Day (which is Sunday) and the 59th Commission on
the Status of Women—also details specific areas of failure in 167
countries."
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