Syeda Ayesha Subhani
(Lahore School of Economics. Kashf Foundation)
Ahmad Nawaz
(Lahore School of Economics)
Fariya Hashmat
(Lahore School of Economics)
Asad Ghalib
(Liverpool Hope University)
Issam Malki
(University of Westminster)
Format:
Panel
Streams:
Gender & generation
Technology & innovation
Sessions:
Wednesday 6 July, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Role of Digital Technology and Innovations in Bridging Gender-inequality for Just Sustainable Futures..
Panel P32a at conference DSA2022: Just sustainable futures in an urbanising and mobile world.
Digital Technology and innovations may play an instrumental role in overcoming Gender disparities and injustice, particularly amidst patriarchy and spatial disparities, thus leading to just sustainable futures.
Long Abstract:
Digital technology and innovations in many ways may impact equitable growth and development crucial for just sustainable futures. Nonetheless, without gender-justice, the process of equitable and sustainable future is a remote possibility. Its importance is further highlighted in times of climate and ecological crises, such as during recent covid-19. This panel thus aims to invite both papers and case studies, built on quantitative and qualitative findings/results, which explore the role of digital technology and innovations in overcoming gender-inequalities, paving sustainable future pathways, in following manners:
-Digital technology and innovations, beyond its instrumental role of connectivity, may surface up as a means to reflect and mitigate gender-inequalities in health, education, income/economic opportunities, inheritance, poverty, migration, violence and many other areas constituting gender-injustice.
-Digital technology's outreach and role goes beyond the notion of connectivity and communication around the globe, while disregarding spatial, patriarchal and other divides. For example, during pandemic times, through use of digital technology and innovations such as digital apps, helplines, social media platforms and online redressal forums, collaborations were made among several social, economic, legal, civic and political institutions to address, provide redressal and to mitigate the incidents of gender inequalities, acts of violence and discrimination.
-Digital technology may also impact the supply side of gender-justice besides demand for justice, through interventionist measures in legal spheres.
Work in the said area from both non- and patriarchal social setup as well as global north and south, will be equally accommodated.
This is a paper-based and not a workshop panel, following DSA’s digital pedagogy of more focus on discussion and debate on new evidence, ideas and approach originating from the work of the contributors/presenters.
Three weeks prior to Conference-Week, contributors/presenters will be required to submit full presentations (and/or paper) in any of the forms such as video/video-with-slides/slides-with-audio/podcast/audio-only/text-only; with input of 8-12min (equivalent to 1200-1800words) excluding references. On the presentation day, each paper will be allocated a total of 10-12minutes; where each presenter will have 5-6 minutes to present while starting with a 2-3min pitch highlighting the intriguing question and main contribution, followed by 5-6minutes for chair/discussants’ comments. Thereafter, the house will open for Q&A, discussion and debate.
This paper will explore women's sustainable development with special focus on mobile phones and internet as medium of awareness, communication and skill enhancement. Paper will also reflect on effect of women's beliefs and physical environment on their wellbeing in existing patriarchal structure.
Paper long abstract:
Women's subjective and material wellbeing enhances their capabilities and functionings to resist patriarchal structures and bridge gender-inequality for just sustainable futures. However, the advent of digital culture has redefined sustainable development by providing them more opportunities. Therefore the conventional wellbeing literature needs to account for this digital culture in the course of women's wellbeing. The awareness of Information Communication and Technologies (ICTs) signifies the intensity of the digital culture prevailing in a society. The exiting literature, pertinent to digital culture, suggests that use of internet reduces disparities among the people by increasing productivity and strengthening human and social capital at large. However, its impact on women's wellbeing in existing patriarchal structure, when their rights are being denied in practice, is rarely accounted for in empirical literature. Against this backdrop, this paper analyses women's sustainable development and the role of digital culture, as proxied by the awareness, and the use of mobile phones and internet, as an enabler to the environment conducive for women's sustainable development in the wake of intersectional oppression.
Our data set is composed of 74,010 women, aged between 15-49 years, and is taken from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (2017-2018). The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression technique is employed. Our findings suggest that digital culture has played a significant role in enhancing women's wellbeing through various mechanisms. This paper has very important policy implications for stakeholders in the patriarchal societies, such as Pakistan which is ranked 153rd out of 156 countries on the gender parity index(2021).
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Ahmad Nawaz (Lahore School of Economics)
Fariya Hashmat (Lahore School of Economics)
Asad Ghalib (Liverpool Hope University)
Issam Malki (University of Westminster)
Short Abstract:
Digital Technology and innovations may play an instrumental role in overcoming Gender disparities and injustice, particularly amidst patriarchy and spatial disparities, thus leading to just sustainable futures.
Long Abstract:
Digital technology and innovations in many ways may impact equitable growth and development crucial for just sustainable futures. Nonetheless, without gender-justice, the process of equitable and sustainable future is a remote possibility. Its importance is further highlighted in times of climate and ecological crises, such as during recent covid-19. This panel thus aims to invite both papers and case studies, built on quantitative and qualitative findings/results, which explore the role of digital technology and innovations in overcoming gender-inequalities, paving sustainable future pathways, in following manners:
-Digital technology and innovations, beyond its instrumental role of connectivity, may surface up as a means to reflect and mitigate gender-inequalities in health, education, income/economic opportunities, inheritance, poverty, migration, violence and many other areas constituting gender-injustice.
-Digital technology's outreach and role goes beyond the notion of connectivity and communication around the globe, while disregarding spatial, patriarchal and other divides. For example, during pandemic times, through use of digital technology and innovations such as digital apps, helplines, social media platforms and online redressal forums, collaborations were made among several social, economic, legal, civic and political institutions to address, provide redressal and to mitigate the incidents of gender inequalities, acts of violence and discrimination.
-Digital technology may also impact the supply side of gender-justice besides demand for justice, through interventionist measures in legal spheres.
Work in the said area from both non- and patriarchal social setup as well as global north and south, will be equally accommodated.
This is a paper-based and not a workshop panel, following DSA’s digital pedagogy of more focus on discussion and debate on new evidence, ideas and approach originating from the work of the contributors/presenters.
Three weeks prior to Conference-Week, contributors/presenters will be required to submit full presentations (and/or paper) in any of the forms such as video/video-with-slides/slides-with-audio/podcast/audio-only/text-only; with input of 8-12min (equivalent to 1200-1800words) excluding references. On the presentation day, each paper will be allocated a total of 10-12minutes; where each presenter will have 5-6 minutes to present while starting with a 2-3min pitch highlighting the intriguing question and main contribution, followed by 5-6minutes for chair/discussants’ comments. Thereafter, the house will open for Q&A, discussion and debate.
Accepted paper:
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -