THE IMPORTANCE OF IT IN WOMEN’S CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Aims to demonstrate the importance of IT in women′s career development with the LIS profession. Although many women feel inhibited by computers and do not have the same encouragement as men to learn IT skills, it has been found that women may be better at managing IT than men. Encourages women to enhance and develop computing expertise, by suggesting some practical steps, as well as briefly describing a new way of working, teleworking, which may help women to overcome the real barrier to their career progression – that of home caring responsibilities.