Gender Digital Divide

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is playing a pivotal role in the socio-economic development. When the world is galloping towards a welfare society, with people centric policies, a vast section of population, particularly women, are unable to participate in the development process due to lack of access to information, communication and its relevant technologies that are empowering the other half of the world in achieving their goals. A book on ‘Gender Digital Divide’ is quite significant at a time when the disparities in gender due to lack of access to ICT are hotly debated across the globe. It is further significant as it is investigating the current challenges of achieving the millennium development goals of equality of gender and universal female literacy and how this can be achieved using ICT. The authors analyze the issues of gender inequalities in the field of ICT and the way it is creating the gender digital divide. They further discuss the current status of women in the field of ICT. The book is aimed at examining the experiences from across the globe that could successfully implement gender sensitive policies with the help of ICT in enhancing opportunities for women in equal participation in every aspect of her uplift. It examines further the ways to bridge this gap while searching for the solutions that can promote gender parity and social justice using ICT. The book is mainly targeting policymakers, researchers, administrators and both genders.