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Women's Program: Women's Resources
The Women's Program lists here some additional resources,
including media coverage and
links to organizations and related publications
related to online policy issues and women's communities.
For alerts, media coverage, and publications related
to incidents of online bias, discrimination, or defamation against
women, see the
Women's SWAT Team page.
More general
information about online policy issues is available from the Issues
bar across the top of most pages on this site.
Media Coverage
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Remote and Rural Solomons Joining the World Wide Web
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Despite being known as the Pacific's first "failed state" and now under a benign Australian military occupation, the Solomon Islands is blazing a radical trail with a short-wave wireless Internet network linking its remotest of islands and atolls, Agence France Presse via Yahoo! (August 2, 2003)
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Study: Internet Use by Latinos Lower Than for Non-Latinos
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Fewer Latinos use the Internet compared to non-Latinos, reports a new UCLA study on the use of the Internet by Latinos in the United States; however, Latinos who use the Internet spend slightly more time online than non-Latino users, and Latinos are online at home more often than non-Latinos, AScribe News via Hispanic Business (July 31, 2003)
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Deceptive Names Promote Anti-Abortion Site
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An anti-abortion activist is buying up Internet domain names with slight variations on names of major news outlets, businesses and the National Organization for Women and linking them to a website profiling gruesome pictures of bloody, aborted fetuses, Chicago Sun-Times (July 11, 2002)
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Women.com Cuts 85 Jobs, 25 Percent of Work Force
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Internet company Women.com Networks Inc. (WOMN) on
Wednesday said it slashed 85 jobs, or about 25
percent of its work force, in an effort to save money and
stay on track to achieve profitability. In a
statement, Women.com Chief Executive Marleen McDaniel said
the San Mateo, Calif., company needs to
"remain nimble in a fluctuating Internet industry."
Women.com, which provides a variety of women-focused
content and shopping services, was founded in
1992 and is one of the older Internet companies. Although
it did not have to cut jobs until now, it currently
finds itself operating in one of the toughest segments of
the Internet business. As most Internet content
sites struggle to attract advertisers, specialized sites
like Women.com have been hurt by competition from
other services like iVillage Inc. (IVIL) and Oxygen Media.
On Wednesday, Oxygen Media said it plans to
cut 10 percent of its staff, Reuters via Internet Daily (December 6, 2000)
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Organizations and Related Publications
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Charting and Bridging Digital Divides
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Fundamentally, the digital divide is about the gap between individuals and societies that have the resources to participate in the information era and those that do not, University of Toronto Centre for Urban and Community Studies via AMD Global Consumer Advisory Board (Adobe PDF) (October 27, 2003)
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OPG Co-Hosts Bridging the Digital Divides Event
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Join us the week of August 25-29 as we discuss "Bridging the Digital
Divides, Equal Access to the Internet" on Techsoup's Digital Divide Forum, including topics such as
class-based disparity in available technology,
the role race, ethnicity, and religion play in the
digital divide, women and technology,
the impact of Internet blocking software on the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and
access to technology for people with disabilities, Online Policy Group (August 25, 2003)
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Digital Divide in Schools: Student Access to and Use of Computers
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Schools appear to play a vital role in bridging a "digital divide" between rural and urban high school students in terms of access to computers and frequency of their use, according to one of the first research papers done under the new Data Research Centre program, Statistics Canada Daily (June 23, 2003)
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Sex and the Internet
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OPG Executive Director Will Doherty presented a program entitled "Sex and the Internet" to the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in San Jose, CA, Online Policy Group (April 12, 2003)
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National Women's History Month
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National Women's History Month was designated by Congress in 1987 and the Educational CyberPlayGround (founded by a women) provides many wonderful resources to help you discover the important contributions, discoveries, and achievements made by women throughout our history, Education CyberPlayground (March 8, 2003)
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