Ofcom has published new guidance setting out actions for technology companies to take to improve women and girls’ online safety. The guidance focuses on harms disproportionately affecting women and girls and highlights how these can inhibit their safety and participation in online spaces and normalise misogynistic attitudes and behaviours.

The nine areas of action centre around taking responsibility, designing services to prevent harm and providing support to users. Actions include: ensure governance and accountability processes address online gender-based harms; conduct abusability evaluations and product testing; and enable users who experience online gender-based harms to make reports.  
Statement and guidance: a safer life online for women and girls