Information policies, and female inclusion from a CTS approach

Abstract

Discrimination against women has been the object of dissimilar international instruments. The research raises a reflection on gender violence and the efforts to counteract it. In 1948 the United Nations (UN) through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the rights and freedoms of men and women without distinction of race, sex, language or religion. In the case of rural women, the Convention establishes that the States Parties will consider the special problems faced by rural women. Assuming information as a productive resource that cuts across all sectors of development of a country with the aim of proactively driving it to progress is the cornerstone that sustains the information and knowledge society. Unesco, through its different programs, has been one of the international organizations concerned that each of the countries of the world has policies and systems of scientific and technical information. Ecuador attaches great importance to information technologies and digital communication and especially to the internet. However, a high percentage of the population that is considered digitally illiterate persists. In spite of the regulations and policies elaborated by the government, endorsed in the Constitution and the Plan of Good Living, it is still insufficient to achieve a true empowerment of women that allows to eliminate the gender violence that still persists in general and in particular in the rural regions, confirmed in the diagnosis made. Its cause is multifactorial: educational, employment, cultural, information, wage gaps, and generate conflict between men and women.