Abstract
In most academic discourses, United Nations (UN) programs and initiatives to promote digitalization and womens rights are studied as distinct fields. Less attention has been paid to UN efforts to promote gender equality and protect womens rights by promoting digitalization. The article addresses some of the gaps in the contemporary research of the role of modern international intergovernmental organizations in womens rights protection amidst modern technological development. The study reveals the influence of digitalization on ameliorating the position of women in modern societies and formulates the assessment of the gender gap in using the ICT technologies, as well as analyzes how UN specialized divisions act to ensure digital gender equality. The author concludes that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by the UN in 2015 do not pay enough attention to the importance of digitalization for ensuring the rights of women.
Highlights
Activities for ensuring the rights of women and gender equality always reflect the characteristics of a specific historical era
In 2015, gender equality was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly (UN GA) as of one of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The United Nations widely applies a variety of forms of working programs, including creating new forms that allow achieving a synergy of efforts of the international organizations, businesses, civil society, as well as in other directions of United Nations’ work
Summary
Activities for ensuring the rights of women and gender equality always reflect the characteristics of a specific historical era. In June, 2018 UN Secretary-General presented the report on prospects and problems in achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in which questions of achievement of gender equality in the digital sphere were reflected. High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation introduced by the United Nations Secretary General António Gutterres develops recommendations of how the international community can work together for optimizing of use of digital technologies and risk reduction. Concerning recommendation 1C the report contained an appeal to civil society and authorities to take concrete strategic measures for ensuring full familiarizing with digital technologies and digital equality for women and other social groups which are traditionally considered as marginalized. In the High-level Panel Follow-up Roundtable 1C (“Digital Inclusion”) participants expressed their concern about the need to increase knowledge about that how the gender gaps arises in the use of digital technology, and to develop such knowledge as to how this problem can be eradicated.
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