Tech and Equality

Gender greatly affects Internet users’ experiences and behavior while moving around and interacting in Cyberspace. The impact of threats of digital nature is different based on gender and sexual orientation, as gender reinforces social, economic, political, and cultural structures of the real world.

The stranger threatened to send her naked photo to her family and schoolmates if she wouldn’t give him a “show”, and thus he got more photos to threaten her with them. Despite submitting to his demands, Amanda was surprised when she found out that her photo was being circulated over the Internet.

Introduction In his foreword for the Global Connectivity Report 2022, issued by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Houlin Zhao, the Secretary-General of the union, points out that “over the past three decades, the number of Internet users went from a few million in 1992 to almost five billion in 2021.” However, “one-third of humanity remains…

According to statistics, males represent 50.5% of the total world population while females represent 49.5% of it. Despite the close ratios, this is not reflected in data on which different fields all over the world depend. Among these fields, that are increasingly and hugely impacting all aspects of life, are the Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. During the development of AI algorithms, women, i.e., half of the world’s population, are mostly ignored, while depending almost exclusively on data representing males. This leads to such systems being biased due to the bias of data they depend on.

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