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status of women. By using a cross countries data, we employ cross section (linear
and curvilinear regressions) to assess the impact of the technology on the status of
women. The main independent variables are Technology Achievement Index (TAl)
and its components i.e. Human Skill Index (HSI), Technology Creation Index (TCI),
Diffusion of Recent Innovation Index (IT) and Diffusion of old Innovation
Index(DII). The dependent variables are the status of women, Gender inequality (GI)
and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). The results confirm the existence of
an inverse U relationship between TAl (IT, HIS, TCI&DII) and the status of women
as well as GEM. Furthermore there exists a linear negative and weak relationship
between TAl and GI. In brief, the results reveal that the impact of IT on the status of
women and women empowerment in the early stages is negligible, but in the
advanced stages its impact is significant, nevertheless the impact of IT on decreasing
gender inequality was not significant.