Digital Transition in the 21st Century: Interrogating the Future of Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Nigeria

The United Nations' celebration of International Women's Day in 1975 was an occasion to stand together to advance gender equality worldwide. This equality is not evident in STEM and technological applications, unlike in any other area. Women are argued to be more analogous than their male counterparts. Today, technology has advanced from quantum physicists to artificial intelligence, yet women are still grappling to understand the use of basic personal technological equipment. Most of the new technological equipment such drones as phones, remote control, laptops, and other technological appliances women use are often managed by their digital children and their male relatives. Applying the ecosystem theory, and online quantitative research design, the paper collected data on the factors that hinder women mainstreaming in STEM, the place of women in the fourth industrial revolution, the extent technological know-how would enhance women’s professional productivity in the fourth industrial revolution, and how women can utilize technology to bridge the gender gap. The primary data collected was analyzed to generate inferential statistics while secondary data was thematically content analysed. Women must either latch in this emerging era and be mainstreamed or widen the gender gap by being lethargic to technology.