As more women run for office, they face not only the usual scrutiny involved in assuming a public role but also a greater degree of danger due to the ways that women are targeted for threats, intimidation, and personal attacks through social media.
, outlines evidence-based recommendations that, if implemented, would go a long way toward ensuring that the digital space becomes a more gender-equal arena for political engagement. They include: As algorithms have played a clear role in spreading misogyny and other biasesImproving user accountability and ensuring that social media companies identify, track, and remove abusive content and hate speech in a more transparent and consistent manner.
Ensuring that female candidates globally receive trainings and information on how to use social media in a way that is safe and effective, for example using tools likeDespitethat gender-balanced institutions are much stronger and women’s participation in governance increases the public’s trust in democracy and reduces corruption, hardly any of these solutions are being implemented on a broad scale.
It's critical that further investments go into tracking, understanding, and ultimately combating gendered disinformation campaigns and online violence against women in politics. Only then, women will truly be able to take advantage of the opportunities for political activism, outreach, and engagement that social media represents and exercise their political rights on equal terms.
It’s urgent, too, because there is no more effective way to estrange the general population from government than to ensure that half of them are prevented from fully engaging in it — and the global challenges the planet faces are too big for us to rely on only half of our talent pool to solve them.
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