ABSTRACT

"ICT can be a powerful catalyst for Women Empowerment. It will proove a tool to promote gender equality. There are a number of strategies that might control are discussed through this paper. The said strategies may be supporting networks of women’s rights, including online rights, provision of sensitizing Policy makers to gender issues, building awareness among ICT users on gender based violence considering state intervention regarding issues, laws and social norms, values & offline, considering implications of particular conditions and patterns of access and use of ICT. And demographic differences on account of age, level of education etc. The next and foremost strategy may be providing support to efforts for creating content on women’s needs and voices through online specifically. Men’s control over technology and their adherence to a technological world view have consequences for language and verbal communication and create a situation where women are silenced. As we know that much equipment tends to be gender typed. There are machines and tools which are more suitable for men such as saws, trucks, wrenches, guns and forklifts for e.g – vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, food- processors are the machines which are suitable for women. Male counterparts of each society repairs vehicles, derive large lorries, build houses, design and prepare more technical and scientific tools. We know that not all males do all of these things but all concerned actions define a male dominated scenario that women’s entry is mere exception only. Therefore, domination over physical world or material world and over nature is part of the technical view which is the male norm. On the other convert, women generally do not think that they have the right to control over the material world. They have low confidence in their capacity to do so and have doubts either. In this way, it will be very difficult for males to make use of technology created and developed by female folk".