Much work remains unfinished to do with women's rights and needs, despite this week's celebration of International Women's Day. Take the online space. More must be done to safeguard the interests of women - urgently.

When the Internet first emerged, it was hailed for the potential to overturn existing power hierarchies by democratising online participation. It was believed that online, everyone has a pulpit, including the most oppressed and marginalised of communities.

However, over time the grim realisation has dawned that existing socio-economic inequalities around class, gender and ethnicity are reproduced, and even magnified, online.


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Lim Sun Sun is professor of communication and technology at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Chew Han Ei is senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore. They are members of the research workstream of the Alliance for Action.

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