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Technology’s Quiet Revolution: Driving Women’s Empowerment

Technology’s Quiet Revolution: Driving Women’s Empowerment. Isobel Coleman Senior Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations. Technology Transforming Daily Lives. R educing maternal death and family size E nabling girls’ education/income generation

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Technology’s Quiet Revolution: Driving Women’s Empowerment

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  1. Technology’s Quiet Revolution:Driving Women’s Empowerment Isobel Coleman Senior Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations

  2. Technology Transforming Daily Lives • Reducing maternal death and family size • Enabling girls’ education/income generation • Creating greater connectivity with society/increased social awareness/civil society/activism

  3. High Rates of Maternal Mortality in Africa/South Asia (World Health Organization 2012)

  4. Maternal deaths per 100,000 Births:1990 vs. 2010 (MDG Goals Report, 2013)

  5. Rising Access to Contraception • (Shannon Jensen, AFP / Getty Images)

  6. Falling Fertility Rates (World Bank, 2012)

  7. Fertility Decline in Developing Countries • 32 developing countries with fertility levels below replacement (by 2010) • Vietnam and Thailand in Southeast Asia • Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Brunei, and Iran in MENA • Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Suriname in Latin America • 90% of 40 highest fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa

  8. Labor-Savings Critical for Women’s Empowerment (Reuters)

  9. Women Spend Upwards of 50% Waking Hours Collecting Water/Firewood

  10. Household Pollution a Health Disaster • (Athar Hussain, Reuters)

  11. Clean Cook Stoves: Saving Time/ Improving Health (University of Washington)

  12. Women in Agriculture

  13. Kickstart Water Pumps (ICRW Invisible Market)

  14. Solar-Powered Irrigation

  15. Women adopting new seeds/techniques necessary for next Green Revolution (Mohanned Faisal, Reuters)

  16. Mobile Phones Empowering Women (Reuters)

  17. Gender Gap in Access is Closing Women less likely to own/access a cell phone than men in low and middle-income countries, but gap is narrowing • Women with cell phones report feeling: • more secure • more independent (AFP)

  18. Marketing Cellphones to Women (Roshan)

  19. Mobile Tech andCommunity Health in Ghana (Grameen Foundation)

  20. Internet Activism Manal Al Sharif and women2drive campaign

  21. Esraa Abdel Fattah “Facebook Girl” (Lucas Jackson, Reuters)

  22. Media Messaging Women’s Rights Issue-based Afghan drama series Rehaii

  23. Soap Operas Challenging Mores Turkish soap opera Noor

  24. Dark Side to Technology

  25. Gaining Speed: Technology’s Quiet Revolution for Women

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