Women Encounter Technology : Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitter, Swasti.

Contributor:

Rowbotham, Sheila.

Series:

UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Local Subjects:

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction; Information technology and working women's demands; Feminist approaches to technology: women's values or a gender lens?; Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles; Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women; Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia

Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transitionComputerization and women's employment in India's banking sector; Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia; Women in software programming: the experience of Brazil; Something old, something new, something borrowed The electronics industry in Calcutta; Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion?; Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing: learning from international experience

Using information technology as a mobilizing force: the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA)The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment; Afterword; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-203-20861-7

0-203-28852-1

1-280-03164-6

1-134-79951-9

1-134-79950-0

9786610031641

9780203208618

OCLC:

437077299