ICTs and Gender-Based Rights

Ana-Cristina Ionescu
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Ana-Cristina Ionescu: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR), Romania

International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD), 2012, vol. 4, issue 2, 33-49

Abstract: In this new age, the Internet, the network of networks connected by a complex array of electronic, wireless, and optical technologies extending from the private to the public sector, and from academic to business and governmental organizations, is starting to have increasingly broad social implications, besides the technical ones. Nevertheless, as women and men enter and progress differently into employment and occupations, not all humankind benefits equally from Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In this paper, the author addresses the question of whether women have equal rights and opportunities to access and use ICTs. In this article, the author strengthens the idea that in this changing era, new ICTs represent a cardinal instrument for social transformation, enabling and empowering women to become controllers of information.

Date: 2012
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