Gender Equity and the use of Information Communication Technologies in the knowledge economy: taking a feminist poststructuralist approach

This paper questions the UK government´s initiatives to solve the recognised gender divide in the use of ICT´s in British Society. In doing so the paper looks to feminism and poststructuralist theory to critically analyse the problem. Poststructuralist theory is offered as a means to question the cultural norms and beliefs in UK society around the use of ICTs, Offering a possibility to challenge the current situation and therefore giving possibility for change.