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

Gender gap score declined between 2014 and 2021

Surajeet Das Gupta | New Delhi
Last Updated at February 24, 2023 23:15 IST

The digital divide, of course, persists between rural and urban areas. In 2021, only 37 per cent of the rural populace was active on the internet, compared with 69 per cent in urban areas

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.

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