USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY BY WOMEN IN PAKISTAN.

摘要

In this article the significance and importance of information technology has been discussed. In the beginning, it is evaluated that when women entered in the field? When their choice of subject was changed and what were the factors behind this change? What were the obstacles and hindrance, which kept them away from the subject of science and technology? In this perspective some social elements were also discussed. Project and planning regarding National Policy for Information Technology is also evaluated, and obstacles are pointed out. If women are provided better opportunities and facilities their participation in using IT technology will increase significantly. Women are discriminated on gender basis. In this society they are kept away in so many ways from the passage of development. Conscious efforts are made in selecting the fields of education, health care, trainings and economic participation. In this connection, women are also discriminated in joining and participating modern information technology. In this paper, such issues have been discussed in the context of Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]