Description
As digital transformation reshapes economies and societies, it offers major opportunities to advance gender equality, while also generating new risks related to inclusion, safety, and rights. Governments today have access to a wide range of digital tools to design and implement public policies in support of gender equality, grounded in the rights of all women and girls in their diversity; to improve women’s access to employment, healthcare, and education; to strengthen their protection against gender-based violence; and to enhance both the effectiveness and reach of public action. This session will bring a G7+ perspective and will examine how countries can leverage the opportunities of digital transformation to deliver tangible progress on gender equality – moving beyond the assumption that digital change is inherently gender-neutral. Drawing on recent evidence and national experiences, the discussion will showcase how governments can design inclusive digital policies that expand opportunities, address persistent gender inequalities, and prevent and mitigate risks, ensuring that digital and gender equality policies reinforce one another. The session will also highlight the added value of multilateral co-operation. It will explore how multilateral frameworks and dialogue platforms such as the G7+ can foster better alignment between digital and gender equality agendas, facilitate the sharing of good practices, and identify common priorities, in order to harness the digital transition as a lever for advancing gender equality.
