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Welcome to CWOW, Christian Women on the Web!!!

… there are a number of sites devoted to the phenomenon of women on the Web.

Perhaps you are a woman searching for an online group of Christian women who will love you and support you.

Some of the Web sites are maintained by and for activist feminists; since March is National Women’s History Month, and March 8 is International Women’s Day, these resources may be heavily utilized in preparation for upcoming events.In keeping with the activist tradition of feminism, there are information sites on topics as diverse as street safety, reproductive health, and graduate programs in computer science. Demographically speaking, women constitute a minority in cyberspace; estimates of the Internet’s female users begin at 15 percent of the total online population. “The ability to use our computers to reach around the world hasn’t just revolutionized computing — it’s creating new forms of social interaction that appear and evolve before the academics can even get their pipes lit.”

Either way, we have tried to make this website user-friendly and Lord-uplifting!

A woman who said she believed in looking toward the future rather than dwelling on the past, Admiral Hopper is the person responsible for coining the term “bug” with regard to computer glitches.Sites with an international focus include: the Global Fund for Women, the United Nations International Conference for Population and Development, and the IPG gopher directory of women’s groups from around the world. Lisa Schmeiser is a graduate student in technical communication.Some of the more easily accessible ones include: the Gender Issues Directory, which is an academic archive of women in computer science and related fields, the Web-ster’s network, which borrows its definition from the radical feminist Mary Daly, and Geekgirl homepage, which is a cross between cyberpunk feminism and hacker culture.Overall, one of the prevailing philosophies of women’s Web resources can best be summed up by a quote from Jonathon Schwartz on the Gender Issues In Computer Networking page. [...] The latter site is sponsored by the San Francisco Examiner, and features html editions of articles focusing on women and women’s issues. not every woman-oriented site on the Web is devoted to feminism; a number of resources are information archives with little obvious political agenda.

Sources:
[1] Christian Women On the Web Foundation
[2] Women on the Web