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

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Other Authors: Mitter, Swasti, 1939-2016, Rowbotham, Sheila
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:UNU/INTECH studies in new technology and development ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction / Swasti Mitter
  • Information technology and working women's demands / Swasti Mitter
  • Feminist approaches to technology: women's values or a gender lens? / Sheila Rowbotham
  • Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles / Liliana Acero
  • Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women / Pavla Jezkova
  • Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia / Maja Bučar
  • Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transition / Charlene Gannagé
  • Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector / Sujata Gothoskar
  • Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia / Cecilia Ng Choon Sim and Carol Yong
  • Women in software programming: the experience of Brazil / Fatima Janine Gaio
  • Something old, something new, something borrowed: the electronics industry in Calcutta / Nirmala Banerjee
  • Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion? / Mayuri Odedra-Straub
  • Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing: learning from international experience / Ruth Pearson
  • Using information technology as a mobilizing force: the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) / Fatma Alloo
  • The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment / Ursula Huws.