TAM reasons for gender treason in technology change

Unquestionably, more women should be encouraged to study computing technology and to become the high-tech professionals. Women do not yet equal in men in frequency of computer usage. Equally important, however, is the quality of women's experience as users of information technology (IT). As more and more of global information comes from online sources, women unable or unwilling to use IT will exert little advocacy for advancing computing-treason to the movement toward universal computing. The leadership of women is critical to molding a cyberworld vision that both genders will support. Adaptations of Davis's Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) can be useful to measure receptivity. The East and West need to explore the effects of non-receptivity to cyberlearning. Women need encouragement to share in developing a vision of an online world that they can advocate, and educational programs need to be designed to encourage women to lead in diffusion of cyberlearning.