Short Summary: What are the core issues for women's equality and empowerment' The past two decades have demonstrated the growing strength of the global women’s movement in advocating issues of women’s equality and empowerment. Among these issues is that of women’s marginalisation and invisibility in all aspects of technology. This paper presents a range of perspectives on gender and information and communication technology (ICT) drawn from a review of existing literature. The aim is to present some of the major debates and critiques of ICT to highlight some important issues of concern for women. It also provides an analytical framework from which to view women’s global participation in, need for and critique of computer networking. The framework incorporates more international perspectives into the discussion, highlighting some issues and observations specific to women working in ICT. It builds on an initial research document developed for a study undertaken by the Association for Progressive Communications’ Women’s Networking Support Programme (APCWNSP) on women’s global networking.
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