A new global platform will connect researchers, governments, tech companies and women’s rights organizations to generate evidence, shape gender-responsive AI and digital policy, and increase women’s voice in technology governance.
The Hub will convene researchers, member states, tech firms, AI experts and women’s rights groups to study how emerging technologies affect women and girls.
UN Women aims to support gender-responsive digital and AI policies and to push technology companies to embed gender-equality principles into design and governance.
The launch responds to documented gender gaps in AI jobs and leadership and to evidence of gender bias and AI-assisted online violence against women.
AI and digital technologies are reshaping work, communication, public services and rights. UN Women highlights two gaps the Hub aims to address:
The Hub will carry out three core functions:
UN Women also intends the Hub to strengthen the UN system's capacity on these issues and to amplify the voices of women and women's rights organizations in policy and technical forums.
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous framed the initiative around the choice societies are making about AI. She warned that AI systems built without women's perspectives risk reproducing current inequalities. The Hub launch was timed to coincide with UNGA81, where AI and its implications for work, development and security were prominent on the agenda.
Women effort to advance gender equality amid rapid technological change. Nearby initiatives mentioned around the same UNGA events include partnerships to increase women's leadership in cybersecurity and multi-stakeholder actions to end technology-facilitated violence against women and girls.
The Hub is a coordinated effort to put gender equality at the center of digital and AI governance by combining evidence, policy support and industry engagement. Its practical impact will depend on the quality of research produced, the willingness of Member States to adopt gender-responsive policies and the extent to which technology companies change design and governance practices.
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