بررسي اثر فناوري اطلاعات بر نابرابري جنسيتي (مطالعه مقطعي بين كشوري )

The Impact of Information Technology on the Status of Women(A Cross Countries Study)

The information technology (IT) has arrived, but how much will it change the status of women. By using a cross countries data, we employ cross section (linear and curvilinear regressions) to assess the impact of the technology on the status of women. The main independent variables are Technology Achievement Index (TAI) and its components i.e. Human Skill Index (HSI), Technology Creation Index (TCI), Diffusion of Recent Innovation Index (IT) and Diffusion of old Innovation Index(DII). The dependent variables are the status of women, Gender inequality (GI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). The results confirm the existence of an inverse U relationship between TAI (IT, HIS, TCI&DII) and the status of women as well as GEM. Furthermore there exists a linear negative and weak relationship between TAI and GI. In brief, the results reveal that the impact of IT on the status of women and women empowerment in the early stages is negligible, but in the advanced stages its impact is significant, nevertheless the impact of IT on decreasing gender inequality was not significant.