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Gender norms and household control may affect whether digital or economic gains increase safety or conflict.

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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
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Gender norms and household control may affect whether digital or economic gains increase safety or conflict.

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Attributed contributors: Caryl Feldacker. “Gender norms and household control may affect whether digital or economic gains increase safety or conflict..” Connected ≠ Ready: Getting to a Ground-Level View of AI Readiness for Women and Vulnerable Populations. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 16 September 2026. Session time 1:00:24–1:01:56. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-6cc55407eed3

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Gender norms and household control may affect whether digital or economic gains increase safety or conflict.

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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
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Proposed mechanism: Changing resources interacts with existing household power.

Conditions: Contextual understanding of relationships and risk.

Limit: Possible harms are not measured causal effects in this demonstration.

social normsintersectionalityunequal harms

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