Why technology though?

Partly because technology is something we feel very strongly about! Also because the relationship between women and technology in India is something that has not been documented or studied very closely, and this is a cause for worry for us.

Whether it’s in urban professional spaces or semi-rural household ones, we have almost no figures that highlight how women are using technology, or being introduced to it. The prevailing gender and class biases also ensure that most women and girls are almost never trained to use technology, or introduced to a very simple-level engagement with it. This is despite the fact that most women will use technological implements throughout their lives, or have it affect their lives in ways they have no control over.

At FAT we try and address this lag in our own way, through workshops, awareness programmes, skill-building sessions for different groups of women (in professional spaces, unemployed women, semi-educated women) with the belief that even this small knowledge will capacitate them to make a positive change in their own lives and the lives of others around them.