Remove the gender digital use gap to achieve household food and nutrition security

What is it about?

Remove the gender digital use gap to achieve household food and nutrition security. We analyze the importance of removing the gender digital use gap using data from the Tanzania National Panel Survey-Sex Disaggregated dataset, recently collected by the National Bureau of Statistics. After we have control over factors that can possibly affect our results, we find that, given household gender roles, women have a higher chance of ensuring a family eats dietary food when accessing and using mobile phones than men. Our results, joining other research, revealed that men prefer spending resources on other household needs rather than food. We expanded our investigation and found that women living in rural Tanzania and using mobile phones have better results than urban women. These research results join the global and country development efforts to ensure no one is left behind on technology use, particularly the access and use of mobile phones.

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Photo by Leone Venter on Unsplash

Photo by Leone Venter on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Our findings demonstrate that digital disparities diminish the potential that exists in the digital world.

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