Page 138 - FerMUN 2020 - Futurecasters Global Young Visionaries Summit, 8th-10th January 2020

Acknowledging the results of the questionnaire submitted to young people in Morocco
explaining that 40% of young people do not feel concerned by the gender digital divide,

Estimating that over the next few decades, 90% of jobs will be technology-related,

Deploring the fact that only 17% of ICT-related jobs are held by women,

Alarmed by the fact that only 2% of global investment goes to women-led businesses,

Alarmed by the fact that women are substantially underpaid in all sectors of work compared
to men, meaning that the gender digital divide is a detrimental factor for the growth of the
global economy as it minimizes the production available from these numerous women as well
as their income and purchasing power,

Alarmed by the fact that the planet is burdened with 44 million items of electronic waste
according to the ITU,

Recalling that the digital division within video games remains a real problem because this world
is still very confined and poorly viewed by the population, even though it is now becoming a
huge market share,

Recalling that whenever a woman plays any type of video game, she will be badly seen when
people should be supporting her and her hobbies; we know that it will be a tremendous task

to change the minds of every person on the planet, but we hope that this will happen in a few
years time with the help of your states,

Thinking moreover that cyber-harassment in this media is a real problem because when a girl
starts to play and show what she is doing, for instance via video game broadcasting sites, her

body is denigrated when this should not be a source of commentary in this context,

Noting that, on this social networks oriented towards video game communities, on the various

"chats" available, inappropriate comments are frequently made about women,

Aware that there is a globally influential mindset of stereotypical, traditional and immoral
viewpoints characterising women as incapable in STEM sectors, which is still being enforced by
modern society, alienating women from the modern economy,

Alarmed by the lack of IT equipment in schools,

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