1Department of Library and Information Science, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga 585 106.
2Directorate of Women's Education, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Gachchibowli, Hyderabad-400 032.
*E-mail: lalita_sami@rediffmail.com
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The paper makes an attempt to study if gender has a role in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), since it is strongly held by various studies that the social and cultural factors impede a woman's preference to scientific and technical subjects. With this background, the paper analyses to see if cultural, family and educational background can change this generalized notion.
Information and Communication Technologies, Information Centres
