Women Empowerment Through Information Technology

This book attempts to demonstrate that ICT technologies are powerful tools for women to use to overcome discrimination, achieve full equality, well-being and participation in decisions that impact the quality of their lives and the future of their communities. It is written for policy makers and development leaders to use as a reference tool to help mainstream gender issues in areas of technology development.

According to the author, Usha Sharma, community-based women's organisations can be instrumental in the process of enabling women to cross the digital divide and become confident users of ICTs. "With women's empowerment as a key objective, they can use technology to successfully build personal confidence and self-esteem that has had wider implications in women's lives."

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Knowledge network: empowerment through employment
• Women's access to information
• Social empowerment through the use of ICT
• Women's economic empowerment
• Impact of globalisation on women's work
• Political empowerment of women
• Women empowerment in technology education
• Impact of information technology
• Bibliography
• Index

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