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

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Title: Women Encounter Technology : Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
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.
Authors: Swasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Women--Employment--Effect of technological inn, Information technology--Developing countries
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women"s Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract: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.
ISBN:9780203288528
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