A gendered perspective on access to the information infrastructure

Information Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-44

  Shade, Leslie Regan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gender equity; Information infrastructure; Internet demographics; National information infrastructure (NII); Universal access; Universal service

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001933706     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019722498128999     Document Type: Article

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