Abstract: A remarkable feature of the history of technological development, at least as it has been written until comparatively recently, is the non-mention of women participation in the process. Even in industrialized societies, recent research has provided evidence of women`s previously unacknowledged contributions to technological developments. Yet women have been growers, gatherers and processors and storers of food from and even before, the beginning of recorded history and recently have become prominent in many modern technological fields. In the circumstance, this study seeks to examine the extent of the role of women in the technological development of Nigeria. The role of women in five major professions was considered around each of the six geo-political zones of the country. Though variation of women�s contribution occurs from zone to zone, it was found that women were rarely passive recipients of technology, but, as its users, could interact in ways which fed back into and influenced the design of artefacts and systems. That the differences, vis-a-vis the role of men, are found to be more the product of socially determined roles than innate propensities. Strategies were then proffer to involve more women in contributing to the technological development, which it is emphasized will lead to a wider definition of what counts as technological in Nigeria and to possibly different solutions to what are deemed technological problems, coupled with the fact that it can raise the status of women.