Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality

Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality

Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, one of the Sustainable Development Goals, is a highly complex and challenging undertaking. We must address multiple issues, discrimination, violence, education, employment, economic resources,...

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Main Author: Rana, Ahmed Nauraiz
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
BIG DATA
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
GENDER EQUALITY
ACCESS TO FINANCE
EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL DIVIDE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/128421596103974424/Leveraging-Big-Data-to-Advance-Gender-Equality
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spelling okr-10986-343082021-05-25T10:54:39Z Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality Rana, Ahmed Nauraiz BIG DATA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GENDER EQUALITY ACCESS TO FINANCE EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY DIGITAL DIVIDE Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, one of the Sustainable Development Goals, is a highly complex and challenging undertaking. We must address multiple issues, discrimination, violence, education, employment, economic resources, and technology, and work across economic sectors, from agriculture to financial services. Achieving gender equality will require significant amounts of accurate data about the situations and struggles of women and girls. Globally, however, there is a major gap in data that is disaggregated by sex, and this gap often renders women’s societal, cultural, and economic contributions and obstacles practically invisible. It can also exacerbate existing gender divides, feeding and reinforcing biases in social programs, access to financial and other services, economic opportunities, and even development programs designed to address gender inequality. Part of the solution may be in the form of big data, which, if used effectively, can provide the volume of data needed to portray women and their situations accurately, which in turn can inform the creation of evidence-based solutions. 2020-08-10T16:03:38Z 2020-08-10T16:03:38Z 2020-06 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/128421596103974424/Leveraging-Big-Data-to-Advance-Gender-Equality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34308 English EMCompass;No. 86 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo International Finance Corporation International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
GENDER EQUALITY
ACCESS TO FINANCE
EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL DIVIDE
spellingShingle BIG DATA
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
GENDER EQUALITY
ACCESS TO FINANCE
EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL DIVIDE
Rana, Ahmed Nauraiz
Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality
relation EMCompass;No. 86
description Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, one of the Sustainable Development Goals, is a highly complex and challenging undertaking. We must address multiple issues, discrimination, violence, education, employment, economic resources, and technology, and work across economic sectors, from agriculture to financial services. Achieving gender equality will require significant amounts of accurate data about the situations and struggles of women and girls. Globally, however, there is a major gap in data that is disaggregated by sex, and this gap often renders women’s societal, cultural, and economic contributions and obstacles practically invisible. It can also exacerbate existing gender divides, feeding and reinforcing biases in social programs, access to financial and other services, economic opportunities, and even development programs designed to address gender inequality. Part of the solution may be in the form of big data, which, if used effectively, can provide the volume of data needed to portray women and their situations accurately, which in turn can inform the creation of evidence-based solutions.
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author Rana, Ahmed Nauraiz
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title Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality
title_short Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality
title_full Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality
title_fullStr Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality
title_full_unstemmed Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality
title_sort leveraging big data to advance gender equality
publisher International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/128421596103974424/Leveraging-Big-Data-to-Advance-Gender-Equality
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