The Impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Development and Its Main Components on Gender Inequality

Promoting gender equality is one of the critical goals of an efficient economy and humandevelopment strategies. Studies show a worldwide gender inequality; so it is essential tounderstand the factors affecting gender inequality, including Information and CommunicationsTechnology (ICT). Accordingly, the primary purpose of this study is to examinethe impact of the ICT Development Index (IDI) and its components, including access, use,and skill on the Gender Inequality Index (GII) in a selected 62 developing and developedcountries over the 2007-2015 period. The findings of this study in a dynamic combinationdata and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) indicate the negative impact of IDI andall three components on the GII in the countries under study. Also, the effect of the accesscomponent on reducing the GII is more than other components of IDI