On Wednesday 15 June, the GSMA Connected Women team launched the Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022. At the virtual launch event, Claire Sibthorpe, GSMA spoke with Doreen Bogdan-Martin, ITU about her reactions to the latest mobile gender gap statistics; the critical importance of collecting this data; the key barriers that are preventing equal mobile ownership and mobile internet use; and the work that ITU are doing to address the mobile gender gap.