Refers to individuals working along with those who can work but are not; basically, it accounts for individuals employed and unemployed.
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How Closing the Digital Divide Can Improve Women's Employability
Paula E. Faulkner (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA), Robert Cobb, Jr. (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA), Thomas Korir Kipkurgat (Moi University, Kenya), and Salwa Omar Alinat-Abed (Open University, Israel)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8594-8.ch001
Abstract
The authors of this chapter provide a lens of the challenge women face with being successful in the labor force. Readers will learn about the importance of addressing gender inequity for women who seek education, training, and governmental resources for employment just as their male counterparts. The authors also detail how women of different countries and cultures such as Bangladesh, Israel, Kenya, and the United States of America face the challenges for closing the digital divide. When women's employability increases, societies improve. Women with technological skills bring new skills to the workplace, reduce economic needs, boost welfare and growth, and better provide for their homes and families. Readers will gain a better understanding of how governmental agencies and policies, educational institutions, and employers can work toward the same goal, and that is closing the gender digital divide.