New publication: Tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data
A new article, co-authored with Ridhi Kashyap, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber and Emilio Zagheni, has now been published in the ITU Digital Skills Insights 2020 report. In this article, we explore global gender gaps in information technology (IT), leveraging novel and aggregate data on user counts from LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking platform. We show how men generally outnumber women in the IT sector on the platform, and that gender gaps are largest in low and lower-middle income countries as well as in IT subdomains focused towards computer programming rather than communications and services.
