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The rise of the internet economy has occurred at a time when the
gender gap has actually been increasing in many indicators of highly
developed countries, which is somewhat of a surprise to those who
believed that the second wave of feminism in the 60s and 70s had
born legitimate fruit.
These layers were defined for internet governance but also serve as a
way of examining how different structures have evolved in seemingly
comparative isolation from other layers and how these isolated
instances are part of the interrelated whole. How the internet has
created a society in which women, in many important areas, are
further from equality and self determination than they were in 1960.
How we can decode the layers of gender discrimination to see how the
architecture of the internet limits our global society.
(to be continued....)