Breaking the Barriers: Empowering Girls in Information and Communication Technology Education

Abstract

Gender inequality is one of the main factors of the digital divide in developing countries. In Bangladesh, the participation of female students in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) and ICTs (Information and Communication Technology) is not satisfactory. Despite of an improvement in recent years, there is a shortage of women pursuing careers in ICT in Bangladesh. In this paper, an initiative namely #missingdaughter was discussed which is taken to engage more women in ICT education in Bangladesh. The impact of this initiative in STEM was explored.