ABSTRACT
Gender inequalities are a dominant feature of contemporary globalization and the information age demands that we revisit them in some fresh ways. While taking account of historical structures and patterns of oppression, these should recognize that new orientations may also be necessary. This chapter considers embedded patriarchy in the information age. The notion of embedded is used here in the spirit of this book’s focus on continuities as well as discontinuities, as is the contested concept of patriarchy. When we think of aspects being embedded we recognize that there may be layers upon layers of effects over long periods of time. The first straightforward point to make is that the information age has dawned in a setting of widespread and historically entrenched and differentiated forms of inequality encountered by women and girls. I want to begin this chapter by developing further the consideration of these traditional forms of inequality.
