Digital India and Women: Bridging the Digital Gender Divide

The purpose of this study is to find out whether digital technologies can reduce the existing gender inequality in Indian society. The current debate around digitalization is limited to the ones who have access and the ones who haven't. But this paper takes the debate beyond access by suggesting a three-tier framework for measuring the impact of digital technologies on women empowerment. The Digital India programme run by Government of India is taken as a case study by the authors. Rather than depending on traditional methodologies to bring gender equality, can we consider Digital India as a potential solution? This paper explores the answer to the above question from a gendered perspective with the help of primary data analysis of a few selected Digital India products and services.