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This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology.

Highlighted by sensational titles such as "The endangered sex" (Miller, 1981) or "More than 100 million women are missing" (Sen, 1992), studies have long drawn attention to the unfavourable life chances of females versus males in various parts of East and South Asia.