.PIRONGRONG RAMASOOTA
FACULTY OF COMMUNICATIONS ARTS CHULALONGKORN
UNIVERSITY
Women and Girls in ICTs
Women and ICTs in Thailand
In 2011, there were more female Internet users than male Internet users.
From 2005 to 2011, female Internet users increased from 12.2% to 23.9%, while the same growth for male Internet users was recorded at 11.8% to 23.5%
Percentage of Male and Female Internet Users
2005 - 2011
Source: National Statistics Office
Percentage
Male Female
Internet and computer skills: Men and Women
Women have higher Internet and computer skills
compared to men.
Research found that Internet and computer skills of
Thai women were higher than Thai men in every
region.
Percentage of Population aged 15-24 with ICTs skills
2005 - 2007
Percentage
2005 2006 2007
Source: National Statistics Office
Percentage of Population aged 15-24 with ICTsS skills
2005 - 2007: by regions
Regions
All
Bangkok
Central
North
Northeast
South
2005 2006 2007
All All All
Source: National Statistics Office
Women in ICTs Sector
Statistics from 2007 to 2011 showed that women working
in ICTs sector were far less in number than men.
In 2011, 90.5% of ICTs workforce were men (446,805),
while women were responsible for only 9.5% (46,758 )
Percentage of ICTs Workforce by gender in 2011
Source: National Statistics Office
Women in ICTs Sector
There were fewer women working in ICTs sector,
particularly in lower skill jobs, such as technicians
and machinists. In high skill jobs, the number of
women were about half the number of men.
Number of ICTs Workforce by gender: 2007-2011
Source: National Statistics Office
2005 2006 2007
High Skill
Low Skill
Number
Research on Women and ICTs
Girls in Cyberspace : Opportunities and Risks by National
Institute of Child and Family Development
There are differences in ICTs usage of girls living in
metropolitan and rural areas, in term of amount of time
spent. Metropolitan Rural
1.Internet 1.Mobile
2.Mobile 2.Internet
3.Computer Game 3.Computer Game
Research on Women and ICTs
Risks encountered by girls and boy:
Girls are more prone to risks such as accessing sexual
content, online chatting, deception and drugs.
While, boys are prone to a problem
of addiction to ICTs.
Research on Women and ICTs
Girls’ use of ICTs
Girls both from metropolitan and rural area constructively use ICTs, such as searching for data and knowledge, enhancing English skill, reporting news and making websites.
Women dropping out of ICTs career?
Current research on girls and ICTs tend to be limited to use and risks encountered. None addresses the question as to why women have dropped out from a career in ICTs.
One past research suggests that conventional wisdom and stereotypes on the masculine character of science and technology discourages women from working in ICTs while ICTs work itself requires flexible hours and demanding workload and responsibilities that women find difficult to cope.
Women in charge of ICTs (1)
Jirawan Boonperm,
permanent-secretary of
Ministry of ICTs Thailand
is also a woman.
Women in charge of ICTs (2)
Patama Chantaruck
• was Managing director of
Microsoft Thailand
• Stepped down in Mar 2011
to lead $9B business division
in Redmond, WA
Women in charge of ICTs (3)
Supajee Suthampan
• was general manager of Global
Technology Services at IBM Asean
• Appointed as Thaicom's CEO in Mar
2011
Women in charge of ICTs (4)
At DTAC, a Norwegian telecommunications concern in Thailand, there is only one woman (out of 8 management members) working in top level management team, while at its rival AIS, a Thai-turned Singaporean mobile service provider, there is one woman (out of 9) working in the Board of Directors.
Government project aiming at
improving status of women in ICTs
e-Women Project
The Ministry of ICTs, in conjunction with telecentre.org
foundation, aims to promote ICTs skills in women, namely,
ICTs literacy through community ICTs center
Telecentre.org recruits women who are leader in ICTs use
from ICTs community center. This group of women are
those who are successful in using ICTs to foster their quality
of life.
Government project aiming at
improving status of women in ICTs
The selected women are sent to participate in the Most
Outstanding Telecentre Woman Manager 2011
The Ministry of ICTs considered this project a successful
initiative to prepare women for technological change.
CGEO – government project to improve gender equality
Chief Gender Equality Officer (CGEO) has gained Cabinet’s
approval on 31 July 2001. According to this initiative, all Ministries
and Departments are to appoint one at the executive level the Chief
Gender Equality Officer (CGEO) and establish Gender Focal Point
(GFP). Civil Service Commission to set up criteria for CGEO and
GFP. The objectives are to promote gender equality in Thai Civil
Service System and create networks of gender equality in Thai Civil
Service System.
CGEO – government project to improve gender equality
Mission of CGEO
Set up policy and Supervision : Gender perspectives to be
integrated in all organizational structure and mission
Support : Learning/training in gender mainstreaming in their
agency as well as collection of sex-disaggregated data
Be trained in gender mainstreaming
Thank you for your attention
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