The Digital gender gap as a limiting factor for female development

Abstract

The development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), whose history starts from the 70's, has a strong impact on today's society due to the increasing flow of information and its management in different areas, as well as its applications in the organizational environment, where it is related to the automation of processes, management control and the exchange of scientific information.

ICT help communication, transmission of information and work, and contribute to improving the quality of life of people, however, with the arrival of the Era of the Internet, Information and Knowledge, new skills and competencies are required to interact and communicate, to use digital devices, to access information and manage it, which generates new inequalities and forms of exclusion, due to access to the development of digital skills is based on academic training, socioeconomic status , age and gender, whereby women have the least opportunities.

The digital gender gap is evident and both, in the formal labor field and in the implementation of entrepreneurial projects, women often face a series of obstacles to enter the business world, based on their digital skills. For this reason, this document focuses on the review of the particularities of the digital divide and its variables, as well as their possible solutions, with the purpose of obtaining information that in the medium term allows to design a training proposal for women entrepreneurs in the state of Hidalgo, which contributes to counteract this situation of inequality and exclusion in the workplace.