A literature review on the role of the information and communication technology (ICT)‎ on women empowerment

Abstract EN

Women's empowerment is a critical tool for bringing about changes in their socioeconomic situation.

Women gain a greater share of control over resources-material, human, and intellectual such as knowledge, information, ideas, and financial resources involving access to money and control over decision making in the home, community, society, and nation-through their empowerment.

The empowerment of women has become a focus on developmental efforts worldwide, women have always sought to communicate and to gain information that will sustain their livelihoods, increase their opportunities, and improve the quality of their lives, ICT can provide the tools to do so.

Women around the world understand the value of ICT and on their own initiative make an effort to use devices such as mobile phones or computers, depending on what they can afford and what is accessible to them, The real challenge is to transform these new forms of communication into real opportunities for growth and development in several fields, such as : women's life, education, economics, and employment.