The case for gender and the Open Data Barometer – World Wide Web Foundation

"As we outlined in this year’s Barometer findings, open data is about people, not just innovation. And yet, we face a ‘sexist data crisis’ with a shortage of gender disaggregated data allowing us to ensure women are counted and included. Although countries that provided datasets for national statistics, health, and education had gender-disaggregated data in 60 percent of cases, in more sensitive areas such as crime data, that percentage reduced dramatically.

The Barometer findings showed women are less likely to be consulted on the design of data policies and initiatives; are under-represented among the ranks of data scientists; and are often uncounted in official statistics. Moreover, poor urban women in the global South are nearly 50 per cent less likely to access the web than men and are therefore unlikely to access data that empowers them...."