Information technology cultures and women's lives

Abstract

The paper discusses the need for building theoretical positions in relation to gender and information and communications technologies (ICTs), particularly in regard to women's use of these technologies. It criticizes "common sense" views of the perceived problem of women's participation in computing, and goes on to suggest that attention to four, as yet under-researched areas, may provide the means of establishing an appropriate theoretical stance. These research programmes are women's employment, women as users, women and cyberculture, and feminist approaches to systems development.