In Australia, as in the United States and United Kingdom, there is perhaps no more familiar local environment through which to think about women, ICTs and issues of access, than in the context of the domestic home. Apart from the extensive research on the nature of women's actual use of ICTs at work, in school, and their negotiation of online space, we are still confronted with enduring issues for women in real space and time which influence access, and which operate right in the heartland of the family home. From housework to the promise of 'smart' homes, from rearing the 'Net Generation' to online shopping, this article considers what women's real spaces and the texture of their everyday domestic lives reveal about the conditions needed for women's effective ICT use. It also considers the ways in which the politics of gendered domestic space in a nation such as Australia, with its immense economic privilege, may nonetheless be usefully connected to some issues of access to ICTs by women in developing countries.
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