Gender Digital Inequality: Conceptualization and Practices

Galina Bannykh ()
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Galina Bannykh: Ural Federal University

A chapter in Digital Transformation and New Challenges, 2021, pp 167-181 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One of the most likely social risks associated with the development of the digital economy is the growing gender inequality in the labor sphere and in society as a whole. In the context of the digital transformation of social relations, various forms of inequality appear, change and continue to be broadcast: from physical to material and intellectual. The purpose of the article is to try to conceptualize the concept of digital gender inequality based on the study of the forms of its manifestation in a digital society. The methodology includes the use of the concepts of social inequality, the information society, digital capital, and the theory of gender inequality. The research methods were analysis of theoretical literature, an analysis of statistical data, analysis of accounts and the context of social networks. As a result of the study, the concept of the “digital gender inequality” is formulated and a conclusion about the widespread use of the form of gender digital inequality in modern labor, professional and personal interactions of people is drawn. In modern Russia a political and legal framework has been adopted to overcome both basic and modern factors of gender inequality and promote a gender balanced and gender sensitive digital economy. However in reality there is a gender gap in the equal opportunities of women of different ages, masculinization of the IT industry, disproportionate representation of women in senior political and managerial positions, inequality in wages and other forms remains. Partial impact through the implementation of certain measures to overcome this contradiction is impossible.

Keywords: Gender inequality; Digital divide; Gender digital inequality; Digital capital; Digital transformation; Gender exclusion; Social inequality; STEM; Gender segregation; Gender asymmetry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71397-3_13

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