The Role of ICT in Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in India

Authors(1) :-Tohida Rehman

This paper explores the role of ICTs in empowering Indian rural women, through a review of ICT initiatives in India. Women are equal beneficiaries to the advantages offered by technology and the products and processes, which are by products of technology use. The present study was carried out to assess ICT infrastructure for women’s empowerment, and gender sensitization and to assess the status of ICT in gender sensitization in terms of policies regarding scholarships, reservations, business development programmes, etc. for self-employment opportunities for women. This paper looks at the prospects generated by ICT supported networking processes for women’s empowerment. It discusses the foremost challenges and a hindrance confronted by women and recommends strategies to address those challenges and means to revamp the situations giving rise to women’s empowerment.

Authors and Affiliations

Tohida Rehman
Department of Computer Science, Surendranath College (C.U), Kolkata, West Bengal, India

ICT, Woman Empowerment, gender, Gender sensitization

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 8 | November-December 2017
Date of Publication : 2017-12-31
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 562-565
Manuscript Number : IJSRST1738132
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

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Tohida Rehman, " The Role of ICT in Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in India", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 3, Issue 8, pp.562-565, November-December-2017.
Journal URL : https://ijsrst.com/IJSRST1738132
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