...Tahir Ullah; Arslan Sheikh; Shehzad Ahmad Purpose In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( KP ), women constitute a larger share of the population and play an important role in education, health, the economy and social spheres. However, this role is greatly hindered by a lack of information on how to address...

...Minu Gupta; Ravi Kiran Purpose This study firstly aims to prepare a hierarchical structure of the barriers contributing to digital exclusion of women. Secondly, the study aims to understand the inter-relationship of the barriers by converting them into a cyclic flow. Design/methodology/approach...

... for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) approach. In total, 24 articles were selected and analysed with using PRISMA steps. Findings Despite a significant increase in usage of the internet and other ICTs around the world, women, especially in developing countries, tend to be on the wrong side...

...Edda Tandi Lwoga; Wallace Chigona Purpose This study aims to assess the contribution of telecenters in expanding the capabilities of rural women to achieve their development outcomes in three rural districts in Tanzania. Design/methodology/approach The study conducted 12 focus group...

...Stella Ngozi Anasi; Ahiaoma Ibegwam; Stella Olubukunmi Oyediran-Tidings Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the preservation and dissemination of women's cultural heritage in selected university libraries in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The descriptive survey...

...Mohammad Reza Davarpanah; Hossein Moradi Moghadam Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overall picture of women's participation in Iranian scientific production. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 7,846 articles was obtained from the three ISI databases: Science Citation...

... hardback © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Information society Special libraries Professional education Women The Arts and Humanities Research Board are to be commended for funding a research project in 2001 from which this title has emerged. The authors have been able...

...Stuart Hannabuss Empowered girls are girls who take charge of their own lives. In children’s and young adult literature long ago, spirited heroines appeared, as we know from works like Little Women, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and Anne of Green Gables...

...Eric Glasgow The nature of the 18th century circulating library is briefly described and its role in forming initial readings habits for women leading to the great 19th century women novelists, and so in the development of women’s cultural liberation, is discussed. The changing nature of reading...

...Eric Glasgow Edited by Margaret   Beetham and Kay   Boardman . Victorian Women’s Magazines . Manchester : Manchester University Press   2001 . x + 230 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0 7190 5878 3; 0 7190 5879 1 paperback   £47.50; £16.99 paperback Women Magazine publishing...

... by recommending the need to recognize women’s groups’ role in providing information structures and systems relevant to information use among rural communities. It concludes by urging researchers in information and communication fields to consider the pursuit to investigate new roles of women in communication. ©...

...W. Malcolm Watson The arrangement of the text is logical and clear. Part 1: the Catalogue contains two sections, the first, entitled The Mirror, records 99 books on and for women. The entries are arranged alphabetically under broad subject headings, brief biographical descriptions are provided...

...Alf H. Walle History Women Magazine publishing Many members of the business community tend to believe that while history may be an interesting diversion, it has little to contribute to the workaday world of the private sector. Thus, in our era of technological change, globally...

...W. Malcolm Watson Lesley   Smith , Jane H. M.   Taylor Edited by . Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence . London : The British Library and University of Toronto Press   1996 . 287 pp , ISBN: N 0 7123 0498 3   £45 The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture...

... attitudes and some ungentlemanlike behaviour. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Furniture History Libraries Sex discrimination Women Looking back it beggars belief that such an apparently innocuous topic as the quality of library chairs could improbably end up in the exposure of rampant...