Digital skills help narrow gender gap at the workplace

Women are using digital skills to gain an edge in preparing for work, finding work and advancing at work, a research report from Accenture, titled Getting to Equal: How Digital is Helping Close the Gender Gap at Work shows.

Digitally savvy women are helping to close the gender gap in the workplace. Women still lag behind men in digital fluency - the extent to which people embrace and use digital technologies to become more knowledgeable, connected and effective - in all but a handful of nations.

However, if governments and businesses can double the pace at which women become digitally fluent, gender equality could be achieved in 25 years in developed nations, versus 50 years at the current pace. Gender equality in the workplace could be achieved in 45 years in developing nations, versus 85 years at the current pace.

Although digital fluency helps women advance in their careers, its impact has not closed the gender gap among executives - or extended to pay equality. Men are still, by far, the dominant earners by household for all three generations.