Technology is now an inseparable part of our everyday social and material lives – from the tools we use for communication (mobile phones, the internet, radio), to the machines and technology that produce our electricity, food and clothes, transport us or monitor us when fall sick. Whether in the Stone Age (when humans learned to use fire to improve their life) or the Bronze or Iron Age (when man began to manipulate metal for his own use) technology has been important to human society. Yet the history of technology has, more often than not, been a history dominated by men and the inventions of men. While this is somewhat true in the recent past, we believe that this should not be true in the years ahead.
From this thought follows the idea of a feminist approach to technology - an outlook that questions the existing structures of technology and seeks to incorporate women as equal partners within it. Whether in personal, social and professional spaces, women should be encouraged to take an equal part in technology, take initiatives to learn and be comfortable in engaging and experimenting with technology.