Publication

This paper explores some of the critical issues surrounding gender and technology, examines what they mean for teaching and learning online, and then describes two projects at the Gender and Diversities Institute at EDC. The first project is research on online learning and its links to gender equity. The second project builds on this base to create a gender and science digital library. Both reflect the work of the Gender and Diversities Institute as it tries to determine how best to create web-based resources and materials that value gender and diversity and support the learning needs of different groups of women. To do this we are exploring a number of questions as we seek to create empowering Internet resources and services for formal and informal educators, for researchers, and for students.

Presented by Katherine Hanson at the Assocition for Women's Rights in Development Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico, October 2002.