Information Technology & Digital Access

WIGSAT's section on information technology - women's participation in computing, the gender digital divide, ICT skills programs, and the contemporary state of women in technology fields globally.

Section overview

Information technology has the largest and most persistent gender gap of any major STEM discipline. This section covers the structural shape of that gap, the policy and program responses across countries, and the institutional and methodological frameworks that researchers and practitioners use to track it.

Topic pages in this section

• Women & ICTs - Closing the Tech Skills Gap
• Digital Equity for Girls and Women in ICT
• Women & ICTs Briefing Series

Featured programs in technology

• Girls Who Code (K-12)
• Black Girls CODE (K-12)
• AI4ALL (high-school summer at major universities)
• Springboard, Flatiron School, Hack Reactor (career bootcamps)
• AnitaB.org / Grace Hopper Celebration (graduate-and-professional)

Why the IT gap matters

Computing is now the largest STEM workforce in most high-income countries, and its share of the broader economy continues to grow. The gender composition of that workforce shapes what gets built, who it gets built for, and which problems get solved.