[GRACE] Cinderella or Cyberella - a new book release!

[Jennifer Radloff]

Nancy J. Hafkin and Sophia Huyer, acknowledged as leading 
scholars on gender and information technology, have assembled a 
stellar group of authors for a collection or terrific articles, entitled 
Cinderella or Cyberella? Empowering Women in the Knowledge 
Society. Each chapter depicts the ways ICTs provide opportunities 
for women to improve their incomes, gain awareness of their rights, 
and improve their own and their families’ well-being.  Illustrative 
case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, show the global 
possibilities for women’s empowerment through technology.  

Contents
1: Understanding Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in 
the
Knowledge Society 2: Women, Gender and ICT Statistics and 
Indicators
3: Engendering ICT Policy and Regulation: Prioritizing Universal
Access for Women’s Empowerment 4: Cyberella in the Classroom? 
Gender,
Education and Technology 5: "We Have Womb": Engendering ICTs 
in
Education, The Schoolnet Africa Experience 6: Improved 
Livelihoods and
Empowerment for Poor Women through IT Sector Intervention 7: 
Women in
Latin America Appropriating ICTs for Social Change 8: 
Empowerment of
Women through ICT-enabled Networks: Towards the optimum ICT-
impact
Model

Nancy J. Hafkin has worked on issues of gender and information 
technology and development for over thirty years. She was formerly 
the coordinator of the African Information Society Initiative at the 
United Nations and is now the director of Knowledge Working.  

Sophia Huyer is Executive Director of Women in Global Science 
and Technology and Senior Research Advisor with the Gender 
Advisory Board of the United Nations Commission on Science and 
Technology for Development. She is a Fellow of the World 
Technology Network.  

Other contributors: Sonia N. Jorge, Shafika Isaacs, Shoba Arun, 
Richard Heeks, Sharon Morgan, Maria Garrido, Raul Roman, and 
Vikas Nath.  

Cinderella or Cyberella? Empowering Women in the Knowledge 
Society, is published by Kumarian Press, June 2006, Paper $23.95 
(1-56549-219-6)  

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