Digi gender divide worsened in India in recent years, says report

Gender gap score declined between 2014 and 2021

The Indian market might be the second largest in terms of active mobile broadband subscriptions after the African continent and the fastest growing in the world, but the digital divide between the genders is not only high, it is growing.

A report, titled State of India’s Digital Economy 2023, presented by ICRIER Prosus Centre for Internet and the Digital Economy (IPCIDE) on Friday points out that India has the lowest gender parity in access to mobile ownership among the G20 countries and this disparity has worsened in recent years.

India’s gender gap score in mobile ownership has fallen from around