African women being left out of 4IR | IOL News

This month is Women’s Month, thanks to the historic march on August 9, 1956, to protest against the draconian pass laws.

Women are less likely to own a cellphone than men; and that is without the China-Trump trade war, which the US president is mounting to protect the hiding Apple is getting from its Chinese competitor, Huawei. Why would women, who constitute most of the world population and carry a disproportionately higher responsibility in raising and protecting families, be unable to afford the golden key to success in the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence? Why would only 83% of South African women own a cellphone and 54% have access to the internet?

They are among 200 million African women who are kept out of the internet revolution - involuntarily or by choice, a tough one at that.

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