Women encounter technology : changing patterns of employment in the Third World

Author(s)

• Mitter, Swasti
• Rowbotham, Sheila
• United Nations University. Institute for New Technologies

Bibliographic Information

Women encounter technology : changing patterns of employment in the Third World

edited by Swasti Mitter and Sheila Rowbotham

（UNU/INTECH studies in new technology and development）（Routledge economics）

Routledge, 1997

• : pbk

Note

"Published in association with the UNU Press"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA3081619X
• ISBN:
  • 0415141184
• LCCN: 95007345
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 356 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD6223
  • DC20 : 331.4/09172/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Employment -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Developing countries
  • LCSH : Information technology -- Developing countries
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26096494
  • BA28952355