Information technology cultures and women´s lives

The paper discusses the need for building theoretical positions in relation to gender and information and communications technologies (ICTs), particularly in regard to women´s use of these technologies. It criticizes "common sense" views of the perceived problem of women´s participation in computing, and goes on to suggest that attention to four, as yet under-researched areas, may provide the means of establishing an appropriate theoretical stance. These research programmes are women´s employment, women as users, women and cyberculture, and feminist approaches to systems development.