The Internet offers new challenges to activists. As we develop ways of integrating the technology into our work we find ourselves facing old questions in new forms, and further development of feminist visions and achievements. The gap between information haves and have nots has not been bridged.
Women have less online access than men, for all the usual gender-related reasons.
This has implications for future education, employment and civic participation. Poverty, race, age, disability and other status add to the barriers to access to communication technology. Translation software is nowhere near perfect. With english as the major language online, there are added difficulties for people who speak other languages. Language is not simply about translation.