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Digital gender divide it refers to the gap between male and female for the access to technology. In our country, men make more use of technology than women because of working or they travel and communicate more with people and most of the women are busy in the house work and because of other socio-cultural barriers, women does not get the chance to make use of technology. The report shows many women in rural areas who owns a mobile does not remember their mobile numbers and they are dependent on their man to make use of it. Also, women after the age of 18 stop getting an education and had less knowledge about technology. in a time of pandemic where almost everything became online many women lose their job because of their insufficient knowledge of how to manage things online and less hands-on technological devices. Our world is moving to digitalization and after few decades everything will be done on digital platforms. so it is very necessary to have knowledge about digital technology. And also, women should not limit themselves to just talk and use social handles, they should also need to do know how to perform a financial transaction. If women do not have financial digital knowledge men can take the wrong advantage of it. Government should make some campaigns and awareness programs. Also, infrastructural problems women are mostly in their house and there is a lot of connectivity problems in residential areas. we have to bridge the gap between digital technology. After some time how much, one is digitally literate would matter a lot. We have seen pandemic as an example, there is a lot of technological advancements are going to happen in near future, women can’t just remain backward. Internet is the most superpower; it speeds up everything we want to do. Men should help their women to learn this by showing how it is done.