The Internet has succeeded in offering women the chance to work together in order to meet their common aims and goals. Through mobilization and communication by and among women online, action and change become a possibility. The mobilization of women s movements functions both online and offline. The authors are highly positive about the ways in which women s groups can use online technology to announce, advertise, and promote gatherings and conferences worldwide. For the more advanced or better-funded organizations, these conferences can go online as well, allowing all women with computer access to attend.
Women worldwide can offer their ideas and opinions without feeling isolated or ignored.
Other groups that do not organize offline conferences use the Internet as a tool for the networking of women by creating community boards for the posting of messages or by creating sites that offer helpful and supportive information on any subject. This sharing of information, this communication, demonstrates for the authors the power of the Internet as a positive tool that enhances the lives of all women who log on. Pollock and Sutton state, women who have not always been widely supported are effectively using the Internet as a place to be heard, to listen, to be included and to make alliances. The voices of lesbian women, women of color, immigrant women, young women, and women with disabilities, are online, and talking to each other. To combat this marginalization and to create this community of isolated women, Pollock and Sutton describe the need to make online access universal and simple, allowing all women to connect with others worldwide.