The girls learnt self-defense techniques, affirmations as well as confidence building. The theme for International Women’s day 2023 was DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality. It was in alignment with the priority theme for the 67th session of the united nations commission on the status of women (CSW- 6), Innovation and echnological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
According to UN Women: Bringing women and other marginalized groups into technology results in more creative solutions and has greater potential for innovations that meet women’s needs and promote gender equality. Their lack of inclusion, by contrast, comes with massive costs as per UN Women’s Gender Snapshot 2022 report, women’s exclusion from the digital world has shaved $1 trillion from the gross domestic product of low- and middle-income countries in the last decade a loss that grow to $1.5 trillion by 2025 without action. Reversing this trend will require tackling the problem of online violence, which a study of 51 countries revealed 38 per cent of women had personally experienced.