Gender Inequality

This is the main barrier stopping female merchants from using digital payments

digital payment methods, like this person entering their card details online, need to be made more accessible to female merchants

'...digital payments are not asexual, and to include women, we need to design for both men and women.' Image: UNSPLASH/rupixen.com

Keyzom Ngodup Massally
Head of Digital Programmes, Chief Digital Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Jyoti Vij
Deputy Secretary-General, FICCI
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