Enhancing women’s engagement in economic activities through information and communication technology deployment: evidence from Central–Eastern European countries

Toward sustainable development: Does digitalization narrow the gender gap in the labor market?

“…This supports the studies of Chen (2004) and Valberg (2020) to some extent, who supported the positive role of digital technology in increasing gender equality in labor force participation. This result also complements those of Kiyota and Maruyama (2018) for Japan, Asongu and Odhiambo (2020) for sub‐Saharan African countries, Lechman and Popowska (2020) for Central Eastern European countries, and Viollaz and Winkler (2022) for Jordan; these studies suggest that the digital technology development contribute to more women's participation in the labor market. When dividing countries by income level, we find the promotion effect of digitalization on the reduction of the gender gap is much stronger in high‐income countries than in upper‐middle‐income and lower‐middle‐income countries.…”

“…From the gender perspective, most studies have focused on the role of digital technology in increasing female labor force participation (Asongu & Odhiambo, 2018, 2020; Dettling, 2017; Efobi et al, 2018; Kiyota & Maruyama, 2018; Lechman & Popowska, 2020; Ngai & Petrongolo, 2017; Viollaz & Winkler, 2022). For example, Efobi et al (2018) analyzed African countries' data from 1990 to 2014 to study the impact of digital technologies on the female labor force participation rate.…”

Technological Innovation in Colombian Small Firms: A Gender Multi-Group Analysis

“…Moreover, female executives can attain better knowledge management for innovating, as Torchia et al (2011) shows. Unfortunately, limited access to the financial system becomes an obstacle to creating their firm and inhibits their participation in entrepreneurial activities (Lechman et al, 2020). Our findings also match those of Olson et al (2003) since male enterprise owners tend to have a better business performance than women when implementing innovative financial measures.…”

Gender, technology and development: reflections on the past, and provocations for the future

“…GTD editors believed from the beginning that technologies present real opportunities for change, that they can in fact help women and more powerless or disenfranchized groups jumpstart processes of emancipation by lowering barriers to education or health in terms of remoteness, mobility, and expand the capacity to tap into the benefits that can be derived from a rapidly changing knowledge economy (Hostettler et al, 2015). That this emancipatory potential of technologies is there has been noted by feminist technology studies and in many of the articles GTD has published over the years (see for instance, in recent years, Alhayek, 2016;Abubakar & Dasuki, 2018;Gaybor, 2019;Kim & Standal, 2019;Lechman & Popowska, 2020; see also Oyosoro et al, in this special issue, in particular). Additionally, in some respects, low-income countries have fared better than their highincome counterparts.…”