Six out of every ten adults without a mobile phone in Kenya are women, the latest mobile gender gap report by GSMA shows. Affordability, low literacy levels and skills, safety and security, and relevance were the main reasons for the gender gap. The findings further reveal mobile and mobile internet gender gap causes Kenya’s GDP to fall short of Sh200,000 for every non-mobile owner annually. Across low middle income countries globally, 15 per cent of adults still do not own a mobile phone and 45 per cent do not use mobile internet. In the same countries, 313 million fewer women than men use mobile internet, representing a gender gap of 23 per cent, while 197 million fewer women own a mobile phone, an equivalent of 10 per cent gender gap.

Source: The Star February 22, 2019 20:26 UTC