The issues of privacy and harassment of women online are the topic of concern for many online users. Two basic arguments exist. Based as it is on the idea that women are inherently weak and incapable of self-defense and that men are innately predatory, it actually reinforces the power imbalance between the sexes, with its roots in the concept of women as property, constantly under siege and requiring the vigilant protection of their male owners. According to Microsoft's Kimberly Ellwanger, technology is bringing about changes for women. Electronic Mail, which most large large companies now use, has a way of flattening the organization.
Fryer states that the Internet is a democratizing agent.
Women have the ability to have more flexible schedules by working at home across the Internet. For example, a woman ordered complete bed rest during the last trimester of a pregnancy can work by using a home computer and a modem. There are a multitude of new openings on the Internet. Richard Landry, publisher of New Media says that in the promising are of multimedia about a third of the managers he meets are female. There will be huge opportunities for creative, innovative new people, products and services.